The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-25 00:00:00

QUEBEC EMIGRANT SOCIETY.

The total Receipts for one year
Ditto Expenditure

Balance in hand 21st October, 1820 .. £25 7 6

The CoMmittee of the Society for the relief of Distressed
Strangers and Emigrants, having laid before the public the
above statement of the Receipts and Expenditure for twelve
months, prepared with as much accuracyas the multiplicity of
the accounts, and the complex nature of their transactions
would admit, feel it their duty to offer their thanks for the
benevolence with which fonds have been furnished in support-
of the views of the Association. Their thanks are equally
due to a number of charitable individuals whose doincions of
clothing; firewood, and provisions, though necessarily omitted
in the subscription list, were gratefully received by the Com-
mittee, and were useful far beyond their apparent value.—
It also peculiary becomes their duty to express their grateful
sense of the assistance, countenance and support they have
constantly received from the personages at the head of the
Government at different periods since their institution.
At urn early period after the first meeting of the Society,
they found it necessary to form an establishment for the re
ception of the sick, the helpless and the infirm ; for which
purpose one of the military buildings on Cape Diamond was
set apart, by the liberality of Government, as an Hospital
and Asylum. And, under the• sanction of the Inspector
of Hospitals, the professional aid and medicines of the.
,Medical Departthent, were furnished to the sick, with
a readiness and assiduity, for which the Committee can-
not make their acknowledgments in terms sufficiently strong.
fo this establishment the care and the funds of the Society
were principally directed; and the substantial advantages de-
rived from it, as well as from the charitable labours of Doc,
tots Lamond, Bigsby and Geddes, wilo at diflereut times at-
tended it, will best be estimated by the subjoined statement,
(marked A,) of the cases of disease to. which telief has been
given.... .. . . . _

ilad the treatment of the sick been the only article of ex-
pellee, it would appear from this statement, compared with
thy general expenditure, that relief has been afforded to near
500 sick persons, at a rate much fess than 255. a head. But
this estimate will be still further minced, when it is consi-
dered that a large proportion of the expenditure of the So-
ciety was incurred for the support of from SO to 40 helpless
individuals, widows, orphans and men, either incapable or
work, or unable to procure it, who without such assistance
would Probably have perished. To this must also be added
the pecuniary aid afforded—tho' sparingly and• with caution,
to poor individuals in sown, and to persons desirous, but
unable, to join their friends in other parts of the Provinces,
or to return to their native country.

As it was one of the principal objects of the Society to put
destitute Emigrants into the way of supporting themselves,
they have the satisfaction of behaving that by the measures
they haVe adopted, and the, information they gave afforded,
they have enabled many to find employmentand the. means of
subsistence, who would otherwise have become a hurt hen to
the community, but are now among its useful members,

The Address which the Committee transmitted to Great
Britain, and which was circulated there and in Ireland, has
also, they trust, been attended with some benefit ; and they
are in:lined to helieve, on the general testimony of those who
have had an opportunity of observation, that, tho' the num-
ber of Emigarnts arriving here is likely to be greater this
year than the last, they are ►n general of a better class and
,description, with ►nure substance, With better information,
and with clearer views. •

On a review therefore of what has been attempted., and of
what has been done, the Committee trust the Public will
think with them, that very considerable benefit has been de-
rived from the association ;' that the good that has been done
has been cheaply bought; and that the success of the past
justifies them in again appealing to the benevolence of the
publiC and of their annual sub,ctibers, to raise the 'funds
that arc now necessary—though they trust, to a smaller ex-
tent,—to carry on the stews with which the association was
originally formed.
On behalf of the Committee of the Emigrants' Society,
ANDW. VM. COCHRAN,
JAMES GEORGE.
A Return of Diseases treated in the Emigrant Hospital, Que-
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bec, from 40th August, 1819, to the Ist June,. 1820.
'Common continued 4 Coughs
Fevers -Intermittent A , Ei'actures
••Typhoid - 168
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Pleurisy - - 43
Infimumation of the Bow•:ls

Original numheradmitted 337
Relapse fromTypholdFerer 77
(row other iliscasxs 79

Co/Isomption

Klieuma.tisui

Diarubwa

Actual number treated 49S

Dysentery

Siphili3

Discharged cured -44 S

ik.l;scesq

Paralytic

Atroihia

Died-Men - 19
Women -
Children - 9

Gangrene - 1
Disease of the Ilip Joint 1

Ulcers -

Total -

Cohtusions

Remaining 5