also including persons salaried by private organizations but primarily on account of other duties) are classified in this report as volunteers. Ninety-one probation officers were paid to do probation work. If to this were added the persons to be salaried through appropriations made in 1908, but which did not become available until 1909, the number would be over 100. Two hundred and seventy-three of the active probation officers served in city courts, 8 in town and village courts, and 39 in the Supreme and county courts.* One probation officer held appointments from 8 courts, 1 from 3 courts and 7 from 2 courts. Certain probation officers have also served in additional courts without receiving additional appointments. A complete classification of the probation officers holding appointments during 1908 is given in the following table. * Of the twelve probation officers appointed during the year to serve in the supreme court, some were appointed by supreme court justices, some by county judges, and some by a supreme court justice and the county judge jointly. In these statistics if a probation officer serves in both the supreme and the county courts, his appointment is counted only once. *Salary appropriated to become available January 1, 1909. † Resigned. Position temporarily vacant. General Sessions. County and Supreme. 1 -21411211142 1 1 1 1 1 1 NUMBER OF PROBATION OFFICERS IN THE STATE DURING 1908, WITH CLASSIFICATION AS TO Whether PubLICLY OR PRIVATELY SALARIED OR VOLUNTEERS Concluded. *Salary appropriated to become available January 1, 1909. County. County. County. County and Supreme. † Resigned. This is the only instance of a person here reported as detailed to probation service, and not giving entire time to probation work but in this case additional compensation was paid because of the probation duties. Number of Persons on Probation During 1908. According to the monthly statistical reports made by probation officers to the Commission, there were 10,434 persons under probationary supervision during 1908, of whom 2,754 were juveniles. Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two of these were placed on probation during the year. Nearly three times as many boys were placed on probation in the year as were committed to the State Industrial School for Boys and to the House of Refuge; and nearly twice as many girls were placed on probation as were committed to the State Training School for Girls. The number of persons remaining on probation on December 31, 1908, was 2,378. The corresponding number for December 31, 1907, was 1,672. General Statistics of Use of Probation in the State During 1908. The following table shows the number placed on probation by the various courts in the State. It will be observed from the table that while only a little over one-third of the children placed on probation in the State were from New York city, the number of adults placed on probation in New York city constituted nearly five-sixths of all the adults placed on probation in the State. |