the above
Warehouse, with their prices, may be had there, by applying either
personally or by letter to Mr. Stanley.

5. The fifth object of the Institution is, to board, clothe, and
Scripturally to educate destitute children who have lost both parents by
death.

At the commencement of this period there were 298 Orphans in the New
Orphan House on Ashley Down, Bristol. During the year there were
admitted into it 39 Orphans, making 337 in all. Of these 337, two died
during the year. Only two! We record this with particular gratitude. And
even these two died through water on the brain. God helping us, we
desire to trace His hand in everything; at the same time, the longer I
am engaged in the Orphan work, and see the effects which are produced by
regular habits, cleanliness, nourishing food, proper clothing, good
ventilation, a healthy locality, &c., the more I am convinced, that at
least one-half of the children among the poorer classes die for want of
proper attention. I do not state this to find fault with them, but
rather mention it in the way of pity and commiseration, to draw the
attention of the public to the fact. If anywhere the mortality among
children should be great, humanly speaking, it should be so among us,
because we generally receive the children very young, and also, because
the very fact of these children, while so young, having been bereaved of
both parents by death, shows that their parents, generally speaking,
were of a very sickly constitution. Indeed the greater part of the
Orphans whom we have received, lost one or both parents through
consumption. And yet, though such is the case, we have seen again and
again, how children who came to us in a most diseased state, have,
through proper attention, by the blessing of God, been brought out of
that state, and are now very healthy. But we often receive children
whose countenances at once show that they have not had sufficient food,
or were in other respects greatly neglected. It was only as late as
April 26, 1855, that the turn of 4 children came, to be received, all of
the same family, from 5 to 9 years old. When these children were
brought, it was evident that they were in a most deplorable state of
health from the want of proper food. This was now the painful difficulty
in which we found ourselves; if we received them, it was not at all
unlikely, humanly speaking, that we should have great trial with them on
account of their health, as they had been