state, eighteen years of age or under, who have never been in attendance upon this school. Of this number, twenty-seven are still too young for admission.

The total appropriations paid by the state for buildings and support of this institution amount to $745,465.83. The amount appropriated for 1881. including sum paid by counties, was $ 6,800.

The pupils enrolled during the year were from the following counties:

INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AMD DUMB.

RESIDENT OFFICERS.

JOHN W. SWILER, M. A.,

SUPERINTENDENT.

RUGENE A. GATES,
STEWARD.

JULIA A. TAYLOR,

The Wisconsin Institution for the Deaf and Dumb is located at Delavan, Walworth county, on the Southwestern division of the Chicago, Milwaukee

& St. Paul Railroad, sixty miles from Milwaukee. The land first occupied by this institution, comprising 11 46-100 acres, was donated by Hon. F. K. PHENIX, one of the first trustees, but the original boundaries have since been enlarged by the purchase of twenty-two acres. The main building was burned to the ground on the 16th of September, 1879; but during the year 1880 four new buildings were erected, and with the increased facilities provided, 250 children may be well cared for.

The new buildings are a school house, boys' dormitory, dining room and chapel, with a main or administration building. These buildings are plain, neit, substantial structures, and well fitted for the uses intended.

The school is divided into primary, intermediate and academic departments, in addition to which a department of articulation is in successful operation under the management of two experienced teachers.

The institution was originally a private school for the deaf, but was incorporated by act of the Legislature, April 19, 1852.

It designs to educate that portion of the children and youth of the State who, on account of deafness, cannot be educated in the public schools. Instruction is given by signs, by written language, and by articulation. In the primary department few books are used, slates, pencils, crayons, pictures, blocks and other illustrative apparatus being the means employed. In the intermediate department the books used are prepared especially for the deaf and dumb; more advanced pupils study text books used in our common schools.

This school gives pupils a course in mathematics, instruction in the dif ferent branches of natural science, and a continuous seven years drill in language and composition.

The record of the school for last year shows increased interest in study, and continuous progress. In addition to systematic and thorough instruction in the Literary Department, the boys were taught printing, baking and shoemaking, and the girls, printing and needlework.

The shoeshop commenced business in 1867; the printing office in 1878; and the bakery in 1881.

The law provides that all deaf and dumb residents of the State of the age of ten years and under twenty-five years, of suitable age and capacity to receive instruction, shall be received and taught free of charge for board and tuition, but parents and guardians are expected to furnish clothing and pay traveling expenses.

The school term commences the first Wednesday of September, and continues forty weeks. The average attendance last year was 172. Total enrollment, 218.

The total amount paid from the State treasury for buildings and current expenses of this institution is $336,734.12.

The appropriations for 1881, including amount received from counties, was $36,8:8.01.

The disbursements on current expense account for the year ending September 30, 1881, amount to $36,387.45, including $8,076.12 for fuel.

The total per capita expense of maintaining a pupil in this school for the year was $211.55, with an average of 172 pupils.

Instruction in the school cost $42.84; in the shops, $6.21; attendance and service of domestics $8.72; general management and supervision $18.14 per capita.

Total cost of attendance as shown by pay roll, $75.92 for each pupil. Subsistence cost $7,928.95, an average of $46.09 per pupil; which is $1.21 per week for a term of thirty-eight weeks. Daily cost of food for each pupil 17 2-7 cents.

The annual attendance and admission of pupils since the organization of the institution in 1852 is as follows:

The State Prison was located at Waupun in July, 1851, by Messrs. JOHN BULLEN, JOHN TAYLOR, and A. W. WORTH, who were appointed commissioners to determine such location under a law enacted that year. A contract was at once entered into for the construction of a temporary prison; in 1853 the contract was let for the mason work upon the south wing of the prison, and additions have been made from time to time since that date.