Adding the totals of the preceding summary to those of the summaries of 1882, 1881, 1880, 1879, 1878, 1877, 1876, and of the Special Report on Public Libraries published by this Burean in 1876 (see also the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1875, p. cvii), we have the following aggregates for the libraries now reported: Total number of public libraries reported, each having 300 volumes or upwards.

Total number of volumes..

Total yearly additions (2,133 libraries reporting)..
Total yearly use of books (1,0-8 libraries reporting)

4,503

......

Total amount of permanent fund (1,905 libraries reporting)
Total amount of yearly income (1,247 libraries reporting).

13, 668, 855 596, 608 10,899, 469

Total yearly expenditures for books, periodicals, and binding (1,212 libraries reporting)....

$7,014, 009 1,592, 602

Total yearly expenditure for salaries and incidental expenses (1,039 libraries reporting)...............

697, 169

857,747

It should be noted, however, that the figures for these items are but approximately true for the libraries of the country, inasmuch as they do not include the very considerable increase of the 3,647 libraries embraced in the Special Report on Public Libraries or the increase of the 472 libraries embraced in the Reports of the Commissioner of Education for 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882-'83, from the dates thereof, to the present time.

The above table gives the statistics of 384 libraries not included in my previous reports. The total number tabulated from 1875 to 1834, inclusive, is 4,503.

The Bureau has now in progress a work on libraries that is intended to supplement the special report published in 1876. Some topics not treated in that publication will be presented and the subjects therein considered will be brought down to date.

TABLE XVII.-SCHOOLS FOR NURSES.

The following statement shows the number of nurses in the United States, according to the census of 1880:

following summary of Table XVII shows the principal points of interest re

the nurses' training schools in this country:

TABLE XVII.—Summary of statistics of training schools for nurses.

States and Territories.

TABLE XVIII. Summary of statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb.

23

200

27

500

48

266

47

65

:

120

Georgia.

the Deaf-Mute High School, three primary d Includes 47 of whom the sex is not reported. schools.

1

6

131

79

52

1

9

98

62

36

263

10

2

79

43

36

554

1

5

2

TABLE XVIII.—Summary of statistics of institutions for

b For salaries; also $35 a quarter per capita for g Territorial appropriation for pupils from Wash

TABLE XIX.-Summary of statistics of schools for the blind.

31 615 155 2,319 9,728 28, 862 1, 839 4, 230, 254 647, 047 66, 431 913, 722 599, 285