68 TlMEHRI. 
This gives the following totals, Hospital patients for 
whole colony 847*5 »' Asylum patients 974 ; Almshouse 
inmates 697 ; Reformatory inmates 170; Orphans 90*42 ; 
Prisoners 1,116 — being a grand total of 3,888 persons, 
or 1*3 per cent of the total population. 
These are some of the points of interest that have pre- 
sented themselves to me in my study of the report of the 
Census of 1891 of this colony. What I have said has 
been written with a deep sense of the truth of the cynical 
maxim, of not prophesying till you know. But the figures 
are there, and those who run may read. 
