OF BOTH OF THE PRECEDING TABLES.

As the Returns from the Jails do not include those who were sent from the Jails to the Houses of Correction, the aggregates of the two Tables, as regards persons, correctly represent so many different individuals.

Whole number of Prisoners, (including Debtors,) in all the Jails and Houses of Correction, during the year ending November 1st, 1844,

4012

3229

783

3518

of other Countries,

*The Returns of the Suffolk, and several other Jails, do not specify the number of Prisoners addicted to Intemperance.

6

2000

553

Persons whose nativity is not given in the Returns,
Remaining in confinement, November 1st, 1844,
Average cost of the Board of each prisoner, per week, - $158
Estimated value of labor in Houses of Correction, $13, 794 44
Total Amount of expenses of Jails and Houses of

Correction, during the year,

$47, 731 97

ABSTRACT

OF THE

RETURNS OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

IN

MASSACHUSETTS,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 1, 1844.

PREPARED BY

JOHN G. PALFREY,

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.