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lately been made at Munich. Such of them as have 

 friends or acquaintances in town with whom they can 

 lodge are permitted to do so ; but if they cannot find 

 out lodgings themselves, they have their option either 

 to be placed in some private family to be taken care of, 

 or go to a house which has lately been purchased and 

 fitted up as an hospital for lodging them.* 



This house is situated in a fine, airy situation, on a 

 small eminence upon the banks of the Isar, and over- 

 looks the whole town, the plain in which it is situated, 

 and the river. It is neatly built, and has a spacious gar- 

 den belonging to it. There are seventeen good rooms 

 in the house, in which it is supposed about eighty per- 

 sons may be lodged. These will all be fed from one 

 kitchen ; and such of them who are very infirm will 

 have others less infirm placed in the same room with 

 them, to assist them and wait upon them. The culti- 

 vation of the garden will be their amusement, and the 

 produce of it their property. They will be furnished 

 with work suitable to their strength ; and for all the la- 

 bour they perform will be paid in money, which will 

 be left at their own disposal. They will be furnished 

 with food, medicine, and q\o'&v\w^ gratis ; and to those 

 who are not able to earn any thing by labour, a small 

 sum of money will be given weekly, to enable them to 

 purchase tobacco, snuff, or any other article of humble 

 luxury to which they may have been accustomed. 



I could have wished that this asylum had been nearer 

 to the House of Industry. It is, indeed, not very far 



* The committee, at the head of the establishment, has been enabled to 

 make this purchase, by legacies made to the institution. These legacies have 

 been numerous, and are increasing every day ; which clearly shov^rs that the 

 measures adopted with regard to the poor have met with the approbation of the 

 public. 



