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scenes in their own com 



rackets and balls the tit to the Asylum had 



afforded. On the occasion of Her Majesty's Jul were 



roasted whole, and firev ement 



of the inmates. He advocated c 



ings, and instituted a system of gardening for the inmates, the 



; hich was boughl by the Government for 



sumption in the Asylum, and in one report he i that 



though light work is beneficial bodily and m there was 



a tendency to extremes, several of the lepcis in their love i i' 



gain, had overworked themselves with the result that they 



upon their hands and feet. .Mi through the reports there 

 is evidence of the absorbing interest which he had in the victims 

 of this loathsome disease, and a constant endeavour to alleviate 

 their suffering and benefit them not only physically but morally. 



His admiration of the noble work of the Dominican S 

 who lane charge of the nursing of the Institution was unbounded, 

 and each year he refers to their devoted ace in dressing 



evil-smelling ulcers, their care in their co- 



bion in the preparation of statistics, and their ever; 

 untiring- help in experimental and other researches, and admin- 

 istrative work. In the report for 1890 he writes thus: "It 

 " would be a work of supere i to repeat the praises of the 



"self abnegation of the Dominican Sisters. From time to time 

 "they are attacked by those who should know better, and the 

 "charges made are always found on et to be utterly 



"groundless. The sickening work which the Sisters are con- 

 " stantly doing, and the unmerited insults which they so often 

 "endure, without complaints, from some of the ] 

 "inmates would long ago have caused women of lower calibre 

 "to turn aside from the work. Much has been written and 

 "spoken of Father Damicn, and rightly so, but these devoted 

 "women had begun their mission five years before he sel out 

 "from Belgium, so that ti comparative veterans in the 



"campaign of succour to 



" This poor rib grated dungeon of the holy human ghost, 



" This house with all its hateful needs, no cleaner than the beast, 



" This coarse - I < reature which in Eden was divine, 



" This Satan haunted ruin, this little city of sewers " 



"Narrow bigotry assails them from time to time, but t heir's is 



" a work \\ hich ri i 



" or nal tonality : i : nitarian." 



in 1 893 he v. rite- : "It is impo sible to 



"devotion of the Domini* Nuns, to whom falls all 



"arduous work in c< i with the tre; of the 



"patients. Nexl month tl ate the fifth anni- 



"versary of their arrival in Trinidad. Of the original band of 



