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First Annual Report Of The Massachusetts Commission For The Blind

Creator: n/a
Date: 1908
Publisher: Wright & Potter, Boston
Source: Mount Holyoke College Library

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Amount brought forward, $18,015 67
Track broom department: --
Merchandise purchases, 610 60
Blind labor, 1 44
Sundries, 2 87
14 91
Total, $18,030 58
Appropriation for 1906, $20,000 00
Disbursements, 18,030 58
Turned back to Treasurer of Commonwealth, $1,969 42

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II. APPROPRIATION FOR GENERAL EXPENSES, 1906-07. -- DISBURSEMENTS, DEC. 1, 1906, TO Nov. 30, 1907.

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Administration Department, -- General Offices.

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Salaries (two seeing superintendents, one blind deputy superintendent, one-third of salary of another deputy superintendent, and salary of stenographer), $6,335 86
Rent and telephone, 1,222 55
Travelling expenses, 1,496 39
Incidentals (postage, supplies, express, sundries), 833 31
$9,888 11

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Registration, and Information.

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Salaries (clerical), $527 30
Travelling expenses, 91 78
Incidentals, 87 93
707 01
$10,595 12

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Industrial and Educational Aid.

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a. General (including cases and classes): --
Board and tuition paid for apprentices and pupils, $1,734 55
Stock and tools furnished to apprentices and pupils (helping them to establish themselves), 577 39
Incidental expenses (guiding, sundries, 29 59
Payment toward telephone training school at linen shop, 40 47
Merchandise and instruction for training in special home industries, 81 64
Amounts carried forward, $2,463 64 $10,595 12

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Amounts carried forward, $2,463 64 $10,595 12
Cobbling class: --
Materials, $114 68
Instruction, 252 00
Rent (since Sept. 1, 1907), 36 00
General expenses, 4 10
Equipment, 129 42
536 20
Basketry class:--
Materials, $29 31
Instruction, 34 50
Sundries, 50
64 31
6 Braille writers, $78 30
Sewing machine, etc., 13 65
91 95
Reimbursement to janitors' supplies department for cost of operation, 312 76
Toward maintenance of salesroom, 1,111 71
$4,580 57
b. Broom shop: --
Raw material, $208 07
Rent, heat, etc., 53 37
Wages to blind, 186 98
Incidentals, 20 05
Equipment (machinery, etc.), 84 92
553 39
c. Home industries for women: --
Raw material and finished goods, $971 98
Paid to blind women, 175 00
Paid to seeing workers, 160 44
Rent for November, 45 00
Advertising, 49 25
Travelling expenses, 18 85
Incidentals (including repairs at sales-room), 111 63
Fitting up of salesroom, 193 06
1,725 16
6,859

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Pittsfield School for Apprentices.

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Merchandise purchases, $961 63
Paid to blind, 984 87
Salaries to seeing, 346 80
Amounts carried forward, $2,203 30 $17,454 24

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Amounts brought forward, $2,203 30 $17,454 24
Rent, 327 74
Travelling expenses, 27 25
General expenses (including express, sundries, supplies, teaming, lighting shop, and repairs incident to moving), 569 22
Additions to plant, 112 76
3,320 27

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Additions to General Furnishings and Office Equipment.

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This amount covers the cost of an adding machine, special display frames for Jamestown, and a phonograph for the use of the blind deputy superintendent and typewritist at office, 642 10
$21,416 61
Less charges paid from appropriation for industries in the form of stock and supplies, 40 50
Total net charges $21,376 11
Appropriation for general expenses, $25,000 00
Net charges, 21,376 11
Turned back to Treasurer of Commonwealth, $3,623 89
Assets in the form of stock, equipment and accounts receivable amount to $4,000 67

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III. SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT, DEC. 1, 1906, TO NOV. 30, 1907.

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Art fabric shop, $2,270 73
Rug shop, 784 56
Mop shop, 1,838 55
Janitors' supplies department, 91 68
Track broom department, 26 41
Salesroom, 1,292 96
General expense account, 2,294 00
Broom shop (as industrial department), 86 54
Gross cost of operation, 8,685 49
Interest on deposits at Beacon Trust Company, 8 55
Net cost of operation, $8,076 94
Depreciation of plants and furnishings, including experiment station, incident to moving, 1,108 02
9,784 96
Add difference between manufacturing and selling price of salesroom merchandise inventory, 1,140 46
Total net cost of maintenance, $10,925 42

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IV. CONDENSED STATEMENT OF RESULTS, DEC. 1, 1906, TO NOV. 30, 1907.

Total merchandise cash purchases, 9,302 26
Received from other departments as purchases, 6 22
Total cash purchases for plants, 1,405 26
Total labor selling and manufacturing expense, 16,965 16
Total operating cost, $27,678 90
Total sales, $12,150 14
Inventories, Nov. 30, 1907, $8,522 34
Inventories, Nov. 30, 1906, 4,370 54
Add gain in inventories, 4,151 80
Plants, Nov. 30, 1907, $4,187 84
Plants, Nov. 30, 1906, 3,744 85
Add gain in plants, 442 99
16,744 93
$10,933 97
Less interest gained on deposits and credited to profit and loss account, 8 55
Net cost. $10,925 42

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