attended to without notes of recommendation, and 14 major and 16 minor operations performed. The system followed is this: Admission is by notes of recommendation, but cases of accident are attended to without such, as just above mentioned. Subscribers, according to the amount subscribed, are supplied with these notes, and these are distributed gratis, on application, where the subscriber is satisfied that the case is a suitable one for such relief to be granted. This institution is neither sectarian nor political in its aims or management, and the work in which it engages is far removed from party strife or clamor; but, as already indicated, it is not a very extensive establishment, and is frequently unable to meet the demands which are made upon its capacity and resources. Outside of all the foregoing instrumentalities, and excluding the railways, there does not appear to be any really legally organized system or channel for the maintenance of work-people disabled by accident, or the sup port of those left destitute, females and young persons, in the event of death as the result of accident. There is no system of national insurance compulsory upon all the wage-earning members of the state. The friendly societies here are the following: The Odd Fellows. The Newport district consists of fourteen lodges, nine in the town and five in the suburbs within a radius of five or six miles, (say, Bassalley, Caerleon, Ponthei, Pontymister, and Risca), numbering 3,102 members. The Foresters comprise in Newport nine courts (or lodges) and have over 1,000 members. The Shepherds have six lodges here and 470 members. The expenditure of the infirmary for 1882 was £1,256 188. 3d. ($6,108.60). The subscriptions were as follows: CORPORATION EMPLOYÉS. Wages paid per year to the corporation employés in Newport. Wages paid per month to employés in Government departments and offices-exclusive of tradesmen and laborers-in Newport. Wages paid per month to employés in Government departments, &c.-Continued. * One of the present officers is in receipt of $835.92 per annum, and rises by annual increments of $29.16 to $884.52. The postmen (including auxiliaries) are supplied with uniform clothing free. NOTE. The salaries of the officers of the customs are the same for each class at all ports in the United Kingdom, London and Liverpool excepted; at some ports there are principal clerks and instructors, but there are none at this port, Newport. Post-office and telegraphs.—Recapitulation. Postmaster. Subpostmasters and town receivers Clerks, telegraphists, and medical officers Sorters, stampers, messengers, and town postmen, rural postmen, and allowances to postmasters for delivery, &c Rent.. Incidental expenses, including allowance for office expenses.. Total......... $1,778 76 2, 692 44 5, 618 16 14, 273 82 486 00 505 44 25, 354 62 This amount (£5,217 in English currency) is that which appears in the estimates (official) revenue departments for the year ending March 31, 1885, as the total sum required for the post-office establishment at Newport for the year 1884-'85, two-thirds of which is the proportion provided for in the tele. graph estimates (telegraph service). |