293 



" Tlie next particular which I have to state, relates to those 

 unhappy refugees who have found their way into our territory. 

 From the month of March to the present month of October, such 

 of them as could labour have been employed in useful public 

 works, and have been fed by government. The monthly average 

 of these persons, since March, is 9125 in Bombay, 3162 in Salsette, 

 and in Sural a considerable number: though from that city 1 have 

 seen no exact returns. 



" But many of these miserable beings are on their arrival 

 here, wholly unable to earn their subsistence by any, even the 

 most moderate, labour. They expire on the road before they can 

 be discovered by the agents of our charity: they expire in the 

 very act of being carried to the place where they are to receive 

 relief. To obviate, or at least to mitigate, these dreadful evils, a 

 Humane Hospital was established by government, for the relief of 

 those emigrants who were unable to labour. The monthly average 

 of those who have been received since March into this hospital, 

 is 1030 in Bombay, about 100 at Salsette, and probably 300 at 

 Sural. 



" I myself visited this hospital in company with my excellent 

 friend Dr. Scott ; and I witnessed a scene, of which the impression 

 will never be effaced from my mind. The average monthly mor- 

 tality of the establishment is dreadful; it amounts to four hundred 

 and eighty. At first sight this would seem to argue some monstrous 

 defects in the plan or management of the institution; and if there 

 were great defects in so new an establishment, hastily provided 

 against so unexampled an evil, those who are accustomed to make 



