Excerpt from The Fortieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge: With the Annual Statement of the Treasurer, the Annual Report of the Superintendents, &C It will be seen that the whole number under instruction during the year which has just closed, was Of this number about three-fourths were admitted at the request of their parents or friends. Of the number discharged, 180 were apprenticed, and 195 returned to their friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.