more distant settlements, have been effectually relieved from temporary distress.

A list is kept by the Society, of washerwomen, charwomen, &c. wanting employment, several of whom they can recommend in the strongest manner. The books, containing a detail of the cases of all the applicants, are open to the inspection of the public; and the very few mendicants, either 6 or 7 individuals, who have perseveringly continued in their occupation at Bath notwithstanding sufficient relief afforded them, are noticed in the Society's last Report, as being now no longer objects deserving of charity.

The balance in hand in September 20, 1805, was £168. 6s. 3d. after an expenditure* of £357. 6s. 11d.; which has been

*The Reader may possibly be desirous of referring to the following Account of the Monies disbursed by the Society, from January 20, to end of September 1805.

To the Ladies, for purchasing 6 sets of child-bed linen, at £3. 35. each set,

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With a view to the encouragement of industry, a Special Committee has been formed for the purpose of considering the best means of providing employment for those who, from natural infirmity or casualty, are unable to earn a maintenance. This has been attended with a considerable degree of success; and at the same time there has been formed at Bath, upon the principles which Mrs. Cappe has detailed in her observations on charity schools, and under the patronage of Lady Isabella King, a HOUSE OF PROTECTION for the education of young women in the various branches of domestic economy, with a view to making them virtuous and useful servants.

The number of cases examined into during nine months, ending the 20th of September 1805, were 440. Of these 95 have been rejected, as not having claim to relief; 39 have (with some temporary aid) been recommended to their parishes; and 135 poor persons of Bath, and 171 of other and

more distant settlements, have been effectually relieved from temporary distress.

A list is kept by the Society, of washerwomen, charwomen, &c. wanting employment, several of whom they can recommend in the strongest manner. The books, containing a detail of the cases of all the applicants, are open to the inspection of the public; and the very few mendicants, either 6 or 7 individuals, who have perseveringly continued in their occupation at Bath notwithstanding sufficient relief afforded them, are noticed in the Society's last Report, as being now no longer objects deserving of charity.

The balance in hand in September 20, 1805, was £168. 6s. 3d. after an expenditure* of £357. 6s. 11d.; which has been

*The Reader may possibly be desirous of referring to the following Account of the Monies disbursed by the Society, from January 20, to end of September 1805.

To the Ladies, for purchasing 6 sets of child-bed linen, at £3. 3s. each set,

enhanced by the several petty expenses in cident to a new institution, by the purchases:

which poor women known to the Society have been employed to make up ; and which have already been sent to 21 married women in child-birth, who would otherwise have been destitute of such necessaries: likewise for providing necessary sustenance in such cases; thus extending the benefit of Mr. Norman's excellent charity :-also for the purchase of various articles of clothing, such as shirts, shifts, flannel petticoats, and waistcoats, against the winter ; together with sundry other aids, more particularly under the Ladies' department To sundries printing. This article is unavoidably much higher at the commencement of such an institution than it will be afterwards To various sums lent to poor people, to be repaid by weekly instalments. These repayments have in general been very punctually made; as will sufficiently appear, when it is considered that the Society only commenced this practice in April last, that the weekly instalments never exceed is. 6d. and are generally not more than is. per week; that some interval is usually allowed

£. s. d.

64 13

40 18 3

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of

of 6 sets of child-bed linen for lying-in women, and by some other incidental

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before their commencement; and that the sum already repaid amounts to £10. 2s. 1od.

To soup-tickets and potatoes, which the Society distribute, as much as possible, instead of money

To the beadle's wages, including some additional charges incurred at HetlingHouse, at the commencement of the institution

To the beadle, for ten vagrants apprehended and convicted, at 5s. each, as an additional reward to that which the law already grants

To expended by Mr. Newland, our medical inspector, in visiting and assisting with medicine 231 cases, wherein many, it is believed, would otherwise have languished without any assistance what

To subscribed by the Society to the Dispensary

To ditto to the Humane Society

To Taylor, a poor man, who suffered by

the fire in Grove-street

To more than 40 cases, visited by a nurse hired by the Society, and relieved with

38 10

23 10 11

25.2 6.

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