The House of Industry and House of Reformation, and Almshouse, at Deer Island, for boys and girls, the Almshouse at Charlestown, and the Almshouse at Rainsford Island, the House of Correction for the County of Suffolk,

and the Boston Lunatic Hospital, at South Boston, are under the care and government of a Board of twelve Directors, one-half of whom are chosen annually, by concurrent vote of the City Council.

This Board is composed of the following persons, and is entitled

Samuel Little, President, James Power, Charles J. Prescott.

William H. Hodgkins, Clerk of Directors. Charles F. Hodgkins, Merritt Nash, Joshua T. Fuller, and Guy C. Walker, Office Clerks. [Appointed by Directors.]

The steamer "J. Putnam Bradlee," which is under the direction of this Board, runs daily from the city to Deer Island; Jerome W. Bartlett, Captain, who is appointed by the Board. The steamer's dock is at the Eastern-avenue Wharf.

ALMSHOUSES.

JOIN C. WHITON, Superintendent at Deer Island. Salary, $500. [Appointed by Directors in month of May or June.]

EDWARD CARNES, Superintendent at Charlestown. Salary, $800, and board in the house.

EBEN M. SEAVER, Overseer at Rainsford Island. Salary, $720, and board in the house.

HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, DEER ISLAND.

JOHN C. WHITON, Superintendent. Salary, $1,500, and board in the house. Luther G. Chandler, M. D., Resident Physician. Salary, $1,200, and board in the house. [Appointed by Directors in month of May or June.] HENRY A. NORCROSS, Assistant Superintendent. [Appointed by the Superintendent.]

There is paid to the Board by the Trustees of the Mason Fund, toward the support of a Chaplain, about $550.

HOUSE OF REFORMATION, DEER ISLAND.

JOHN C. WHITON, Superintendent. Salary, $500. [Appointed by Directors in month of May or June.] This Institution is for the employment and reformation of Juvenile Offenders, both male and female.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION, SOUTH BOSTON.

MARTIN V. BERRY, Master. Salary, $2,000, and board in the house. [Chosen by Directors in May or June. Ord. p. 383.]

Deputy Master, L. W. Blake. Salary, $1,000, and board in the house.

Clerk, E. M. Stanford. Salary, $1,000, and board in the house. [Chosen by Directors.]

Chaplain, Rev. Joseph H. Clinch. [Chosen by Directors.] Salary, $1,300.

There are also nine male assistants. Salary from $300 to $800 each, and board; and five female assistants. Salary, from $250 to $350, and board.

[The Deputy-Master and other officers are appointed by the Master.]

BOSTON LUNATIC HOSPITAL, SOUTH BOSTON.

CLEMENT A. WALKER, M. D., Superintendent, and also Physician to the above Institution and House of Correction. Salary, 2,500, and board in the house. [Chosen by the Directors in the month of February.]

GEORGE H. M. Rowe, M. D., Assistant Superintendent. Salary, $1,500, and board in the house. [Appointed by Superintendent.]

JOHN T. CARTER, M. D., Second Assistant and Apothecary, Salary, $1,000, and board.

Rev. JOSEPH H. CLINCH, Chaplain. [Appointed by the Board.]

There are also attached to this institution one male and two female Supervisors, ten male and eleven female attendants, and one watchman.

HOME FOR THE POOR.

The necessity of a separation of the paupers, who are required to be supported by this city, from all communication with the criminal classes, having been determined by the City Council, a tract of land containing about fifty acres, being a portion of the Austin Farm, so called, in West Roxbury, was purchased by the city, under an order passed December 20, 1873, as a site for a building to be devoted to a "Home for the Poor." (Plans and estimates for the construction of the edifice have been prepared by N. J. Bradlee, Architect, which call for the appropriation of $551,188 for that object; but no action has been taken thereon by the City Council at this date.) An appropriation of ten thousand dollars has been made by the City Council for fitting up the buildings on the Austin Farm for the reception of a portion of the female