{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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S4,tOl 4S In the above, is not included the expense of Wa ter for many years past is not charged for by the generous proprietor of the Water Works. Neither is the expense of Medical services which also rendered gratuItously.

 There have been in the Asylum during the year, m all l23 children. of whom Is have been placed as apprentices 8 withdrawn by relatives and have died-present number 97. The highest nsmber al any tims 105-lowest 9l-average number. say 9S. From the above, compared with last years report in which the average number of children 95 and the total expenses $3450 40; it will be seen, first that, thanks 10 klnd Providence, who has blessed the city with unusual hea lthfuIuess, the number oi children been increased very little during the last year, and secondy that the aggregate of Asy um penses this year( 65l 42) is in proportion the number of children about the same last year. though provisions generally have been dearer. Thus taking the aggregate number of chdren at 9S, each has but Ss37 25 for the year about $3 10 cts per monlh including board, clothing, schooling, ser. wants hire, repairs, insurance of buildings, sc, 8c. When it is also considered that the free school for externs, in connection with the Asylum, which 50 10 60 girls from the city receive grAutous edu- caion is included in the expense, il will be evident that the utmost economy has been pracced by those in charge ot the institution.

 IL is hereby necessary 10 add that the managers and their friends, who have hitherto oiled with them in this "hbor of love-" rely with confidence the ever generous community of Mobile to replensh the r now exhausted Treasury at the OrphaH Fair, for which they plying all their industry to be pre- pared at the usual time the approaching New Year.

 M. A. ROBE, Secretary. Mobile, Dec. IS, 1916. decl8K