3o8 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



pense being incurred for the 

 young-er part of the conununity. 

 This institution has fully answered 

 the views of its benevolent found- 

 ers. By much the greater pro- 

 portion of those who have been 

 brought up turn out well, and 

 fully warrant the reiuai k of one of 

 those vvho had deviated a little 

 from the rules of discretion and 

 good conduct, " that within its 

 walls the society taught them ha- 

 bits which they could not get rid 

 of if they would " 



Your committee wish to direct 

 the attenvion of the public to this 

 excellent institution, which is well 

 deserving a more extended pa- 

 tronage, not only for ti»e end 

 which the establishment has in 

 view, but also for the success 

 which has attended its labours, 

 arising from the excellence of its 

 regulations, and the frugal man- 

 ner in which its funds are admi- 

 nistered. 



The Magdalen Hospital contains 

 80 females : it has been establish- 

 ed from the year 17S8, and has 

 from that ])eri()d to the present 

 day admitted about 4,594 persons, 

 of whom 3,01'2 have been restor- 

 ed to their friends or |)Iaced in re- 

 putable service ; 912 have been 

 discharged at their own lequest ; 

 556 for improper behaviour ; and 

 85 have died while in the hospital. 

 Of 246 women who were dis- 

 charged in the last four years, of 

 every descrij)Tion, 157 are leform- 

 ed ; 7-1 have relajised ; four are 

 insane ; one is dead, and of ten 

 the situation is not known ; so 

 that it may be estimated tl'.at two- 

 thirds- of the women who enter 

 into this society are permanently 

 reclaimed : the average age of 

 those unfortunate fensales is from 



17 to 18. They apjdy very young, 

 some few at even 13 or 14, but 

 generally from 15 to 25 ; some 

 have been admitted there of 12 

 yeai s of age 



The London Female Penitenti- 

 ary contains 100 persons, at an 

 average expense per head of 231. 

 This institution has been estab- 

 lished about ten years ; in that 

 time 2,000 persons have petitioned 

 to be adn^ittetl, and 1,565 alone 

 have been received : of whom 265 

 have been reconciled to their 

 friends and placed out to service ; 



18 have married; 87 have been 

 discharged from various cau-es ; 

 17 have eloped ; 66 left the house 

 at their own request, and 14 have 

 died. Yoiu" committee observe 

 that the labour of the women of 

 this latter institution prodiiced 

 6651., while that of the Magdalen 

 was only 1671 , dirringlast year. 



The General Penitentiary, Mill- 

 bank, contained 52 males and 76 

 females, total 128, en the 22d 

 May last. The cost of each pri- 

 soner as to food is sixpence to seven- 

 pence a day, or about 91. 2*. (id. 

 per annum. Your committee were 

 informed that the cloihiug and 

 maintenance of each prisoner 

 would not exceed 20Z. per armum. 

 This establishment is of so recent 

 a date, as not yi't to furnish nrur-h 

 evidence of the beneficial result of 

 its regulations. But your conmiit- 

 tve cannot refrain from inserting 

 the following extract from the 

 journal of the chaplain, who states, 

 that dui-ing the ten or twelve 

 months that the prisoners have 

 l)een under his direction, he has 

 obser\e(l a great alteration in their 

 manner, a])pearance, and charac- 

 ter, and that the practical advan- 

 tages of the system are far beyond 



his 



