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dustrial profit of L136 19s, 11d. Of 37 discharges 70 per cent, are said to be doing well, 6 per cent, to be re-convicted, 3 per cent, dead, and 21 per cent, unknown.--At _Shustoke_ School, certified in February, 1868, there were 130 boys, under 11 officers. The boys cost 6s. 8d. per head per week. L1,580 17s. 11d. had been received from the Treasury; L1,741 16s. from the rates, of which, however, L1,100 had been spent in building, &c.; industrial profit, L109 3s. 7d. Of 27 discharges 74 per cent, were reported to be doing well, 18 per cent, to be convicted, 4 per cent, to be doubtful, and 4 per cent, to be unknown.--_Saltley_ Reformatory was established in 1852. There were 91 boys under detention and 16 on license at the time of the inspector's visit; 9 officers. This school received L1,371 14s. 3d. from the Treasury, L254 19s. 1d. from the rates, and L99 16s. 6d. from subscriptions. The boys cost 6s 8d. per head per week, and there was L117 9s. 10d. industrial profit, representing the produce of their labour. Of 74 boys discharged in 1879-81, 69 per cent are reported to be doing well, 19 per cent. to be reconvicted, and 12 per cent. unknown.-- At _Stoke Farm_ Reformatory, established in 1853, there were 78 boys under detention, in charge of 10 officers; and 19 on license. Stoke received L1,182 19s. 8d. from the Treasury, L102 17s. 6d. from the rates, and L100 from subscriptions. The boys cost 6s. 11d. per head per week, and there was an industrial profit of L18 14s. 11d. Of 62 boys discharged in 1879-81, 76 per cent, were reported to be doing well, 16 per cent. to be convicted of crime, 5 per cent. doubtful, 11/2 per cent. dead, 11/2 per cent. unknown. _Licensed Victuallers' Asylum_, Bristol Road, founded in 1848, to receive and maintain for life distressed members of the trade and their wives or widows.--The Secretary is Mr. H.C. Edwards, The Quadrant, New Street.--See. "_Trade Societies_." _Little Sisters' Home_.--Founded in 1864, by three French and two English members of the Catholic "Order of Little Sisters of the Poor," the first home being at one of the large houses in the Crescent, where they sheltered, fed, and clothed about 80 aged or broken-down men and women. In 1874 the Sisters removed to their present establishment, at Harborne, where they minister to nearly double the number. The whole of this large family are provided for out of the scraps and odds-and-ends gathered by the Sisters from private house
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