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It is evident then that they contract the sickness before coming to the Convents.*
Medical assistance would be (in my opinion) of very little or rather of no use, because those children are brought in in a hopeless state, and because Dr. O'BRIEN gave all his attention to those children, and satisfied himself that nothing could be done.
I looked over the Register of the Italian Convent for the month of October last, I found the number of 50 deaths, as Mr. MACEWEN says, I saw that they are all infants, that 48 were brought in in a hopeless state, that only 2 could be given out to a wet-nurse, but soon were brought back with fever, and they died of the fever contracted out of the Convent.
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Mr. MCCALLUM says: "the person delivering the child frequently receives a small sum of money for doing so. Now to prevent all misunderstanding, I wish to say that the small sum of money never exceeds three cents.
G. BURGHIGNOLI,
Pro. Vicar-Apostolic.
Year.
RETURNS OF DEATHS AND ADMISSIONS INTO THE ITALIAN CONVENT,
FROM 1880 TO SEPTEMBER, 1886.
DEATHS IN THE ITALIAN CONVENT.
Under One
Year.
Uuner Ten
Years.
Orphans.
European
Orphans,
Destitute
Chinese
Women.
Total.
Foundlings.
PERSONS ADMITTED INTO THE
Orphans.
European
CONVENT.
Orphans.
Chinese.
Destitute
Women.
Total.
1880,
534
1881,
484
1882,
471
1883,
506
1884,
431
1885,
433
1886,
355
12 18 18 5 8 8 8
55
1
6
596
625
7
21
56
85
1
7
548 518 10
1
10
567
675
20
97
1
1
66
2*
3
00
Επ
5
610
663
23
510
750
I
282
23
18
20
to to to to
38
691
28
579
33
746
28
734
17.
27 17
811
85
2*
78
4
22 23
20
540 603 19
28
28
678
12 449 475 25
20 29
549
Till the end of September.
3,214 522†
ૐ
11
68
3,820 4,309 121 157 201
4,788
* 1 Sister of Charity and 1 European Orphan.
+ These are infants almost all under 5 years, and all brought in in a dying state.
CHILDREN ADMITTED INTO THE FRENCH CONVENT.
In 1880,..
95
1881,.
1882,.
**
926
870
910
46
1883,.
1884,..
1885,..
..1107
..1025
924
A
1886,............................
932
Total,......
.6694