. New York Infant Asylum Annual Report. bitter and wretched than institution has been remarkably free from disease anddeath during the last year, and our resident physiciansreport will show the very low death rate. The women are cheerful in performing the daily laborsof the house—and disorderly conduct, very rare. Our present matron, Mrs. Margaret Ennever, has heldher present position for eleven years, beloved by all, andmost gently and quietly going through with her arduousduties. She has personally superintended the making ofnearly three thousand garments, all made by the inmates.
. New York Infant Asylum Annual Report. bitter and wretched than institution has been remarkably free from disease anddeath during the last year, and our resident physiciansreport will show the very low death rate. The women are cheerful in performing the daily laborsof the house—and disorderly conduct, very rare. Our present matron, Mrs. Margaret Ennever, has heldher present position for eleven years, beloved by all, andmost gently and quietly going through with her arduousduties. She has personally superintended the making ofnearly three thousand garments, all made by the garment used by the inmates in the Institution is cutand made by the women in the house. The matron conducts morning and evening prayers withBible readings, and religious services are held in the jDarlorseach Sabbath evening, to which many of the women return,who have long since left the Institution. AVho taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteththe poor out of the mire. Respectfully submitted, HELENE S. BELL, 35 ANNUAL REPORT —OF THE— toadies Committee of the FH>ount Yernon fBnanc To The Board of Managers : Since publishing the last Annual Report of the LadiesCommittee of the Mt. Vernon Branch of the New YorkInfant Asylum an All wise and overruling Providence hasseen fit to remove my dearly beloved mother from thespheres of her great usefulness in life, and more particu-larly that as Chairwoman of the Mt. Vernon Branch of theNew York Infant Asylum, which position she so long andso efficiently filled. In my devotion to her the last fewmonths of her life I was happy in doing all in my powerto save her from care and make her last hours her instructions I frequently went to Mt. Vernon,and, in a measure, assumed her duties there, and in whichI have taken a deeper interest since her death. Now sinceyour honorable Board has seen fit to elect me her successorI feel that my experience has been such, as to enable me,in accepting the posit
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