Our object has been to do the most good to the greatest number, notwithstanding some individuals received less benefit than they would have done with more ample accommodations. No fatal epidemic has visited our inmates, though several of them and some of our laborers had scarlet fever in the winter of 1847. It proved fatal to an interesting little son of the Steward, of the age of five years. Suicide, that most dreaded of all evils in an institution like ours, has not been witnessed here for more than three years. In order to compare with former reports, the following summary is given of our inmates for the year ending 30th November, 1847. |