Abstract
THE New York system is a combination of public and private effort in the care of the dependent wards of the state and involves the cooperation of governmental agencies with the institutions and societies maintained at private expense and engaged in some form of philanthropic endeavor. The thirty-seven state institutions include hospitals for the insane, prisons, reformatories, institutions for the mentally defective, homes for veterans, a tuberculosis hospital, a hospital for the treatment of crippled and deformed children, an institution for epileptics, a school for Indian children and a school for the blind. The county, city and town institutions and agencies are the penitentiaries, jails, workhouses, almshouses, lodging houses, hospitals, boards of child welfare, dispensaries, a reformatory for male misdemeanants and an institution for mental defectives. In connection with these should be considered the county, city and town Poor Law officials. The work of these public agencies is supplemented by some six hundred private institutions which receive payments from counties, cities and towns for the maintenance of at least a portion of their beneficiaries, and more than that number maintained entirely at private
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