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722 Series Bf 17–22 Bf SOCIAL INSURANCE AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TABLE Bf 17–22 Tax assessments and expenditures for the poor in Philadelphia: 1800–1854 Continued Almshouse expenditures Outdoor expenditures Poor-tax Total expenditures Percentage of Percentage of assessment for the poor Total total expenditures Total total expenditures Fiscal year Bf17 Bf18 Bf19 2 Bf20 Bf21 Bf22 beginning Dollars Dollars Dollars Percent Dollars Percent 1845 161,025 144,074 105,245 73 38,829 27 1846 197,265 129,345 91,463 71 37,882 29 1847 191,013 144,598 106,207 73 38,391 27 1848 189,425 148,297 100,683 68 47,613 32 1849 191,037 166,346 117,759 70 48,587 30 1850 208,018 167,204 121,485 73 45,719 27 1852 259,583 176,434 120,878 69 55,557 31 1853 — 193,277 127,558 66 65,719 34 1854 3 — 143,771 115,665 80 28,107 20 1 Through 1802, the fiscal year began in March; thereafter in May. 2 Beginning in 1821, expenditures of the children’s asylum and board of youngsters in the Shelter for Colored Orphans and of the sick in the city hospital are included with the almshouse expenditures. In the annual accounts, they are included with outdoor expenditures. 3 May to December. 4 Almshouse figures include the amount paid the Pennsylvania Hospital for boarding some insane patients. Source Priscilla Clement, Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City: Philadelphia, 1800–1854 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985), Appendix 1, pp. 174–7. Documentation The underlying sources for the data are many and are documented in detail in Clement (1985), Appendix 1. There are some discrepancies (though apparently small in magnitude) in the year-to-year comparability of figures. Series Bf17. The tax assessment was usually levied in January for the fiscal year that began in March or May. Series Bf19. Expenditures are direct costs of caring for the poor in the almshouse. The figures include salaries paid to almshouse employees and the cost of materials used in the [almshouse] factory. Series Bf21. Expenditures include sums spent for outdoor cash aid, medical attendance, and wood as well as for the amount paid in salaries to employees of the guardians of the poor. TABLE Bf 23–27 Public relief recipients in Philadelphia, by type of relief: 1800–1854 1 Contributed by Stephen T. Ziliak Public relief Almshouses and Outdoor Total children’s asylum pensioners Medical aid Fuel aid Fiscal year Bf23 Bf24 Bf25 Bf26 Bf27 beginning Number Number Number Number Number 1800 1,390 788 602 — — 1801 — 948 — — — 1802 — 804 — — — 1803 — 1,101 — — — 1804 — 1,196 — — — 1805 1,180 2 1,270 590 — — 1806 2,000 1,455 545 — — 1807 — 1,406 — — — 1808 — 1,581 — — — 1809 — 1,611 — — — 1810 2,500 1,755 745 — — 1811 2,106 1,796 310 — — 1812 — 1,830 — — — 1813 — 1,820 — — — 1814 3,145 1,891 1,254 — — 1815 3,462 2,254 1,208 — — 1816 3,852 2,653 1,199 — — 1817 4,082 2,843 1,239 — — 1818 — — 1,249 — — 1819 5,530 4,049 1,481 — — Notes appear at end of table (continued)
POOR RELIEF Series Bf 23–27 723 TABLE Bf 23–27 Public relief recipients in Philadelphia, by type of relief: 1800–1854 Continued Public relief Almshouses and Outdoor Total children’s asylum pensioners Medical aid Fuel aid Fiscal year Bf23 Bf24 Bf25 Bf26 Bf27 beginning Number Number Number Number Number 1820 5,237 3,907 1,330 — — 1821 4,834 3,566 1,268 — — 1822 5,119 3,897 1,222 — — 1823 5,387 4,378 1,009 — — 1824 4,508 3,666 842 — — 1825 4,591 3,578 1,013 — — 1826 5,059 4,025 1,034 — — 1827 4,110 3,411 699 — — 1828 4,276 4,024 252 — — 1829 4,360 3,651 709 2,875 2,128 1830 3,450 2,730 720 — — 1831 4,171 3,501 670 — 3,197 1832 — — 760 2,285 3,175 1833 4,198 3,400 798 — — 1834 — — 916 — — 1835 2,512 2,512 0 — — 1836 2,692 2,692 0 — — 1837 2,896 2,896 0 — 3,685 1838 2,420 2,420 0 — 2,742 1839 3,131 3,008 123 — — 1840 2,891 2,696 195 — 2,889 1841 3,161 2,985 176 2,437 4,498 1842 3,060 2,869 191 3,164 7,575 1843 3,187 2,958 229 2,808 6,650 1845 3,475 3,223 252 3,077 7,040 1846 4,810 4,503 307 3,190 7,720 1847 4,520 4,303 217 2,864 6,903 1848 4,775 4,504 271 2,882 8,868 1849 5,146 4,885 261 3,491 8,821 1850 5,041 4,854 187 — — 1851 — 6,719 — — — 1852 — 5,017 — — — 1853 — 5,407 — — — 1854 — 3,244 — — — 1 Through 1802, the fiscal year began in March; thereafter in May. 2 Totalisgiven as reported in the source, but it does not equal the sum of series Bf24–25. Source Priscilla Clement, Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City: Philadelphia, 1800–1854 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985), Appendix 2, pp. 178–80. Documentation The underlying sources for the data are many and are documented in detail in Clement (1985), Appendix 2. There are some discrepancies (though apparently small in magnitude) in the year-to-year comparability of figures. See Clement (1985), Appendix 2, “Sources.” Series Bf24. Almshouse and asylum figures represent total admissions; they may be somewhat inflated, then, because some people were admitted more than once in a year. Series Bf25. Single people and heads of families. The number of children in these families is not included in these figures but may have amounted to 40 percent of those on pensions in some years. Series Bf26–27. Numbers of medical and fuel aid recipients were given annually in most years after 1800. Many outdoor pensioners received both fuel and medical aid so there may be a great deal of overlap, which is impossible to measure because there are no extant lists of aid recipients.
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