Excerpt from The Twentieth Annual Report of the Finances of the Town of Dorchester: For the Year Ending Jan. 31, 1858 The number of paupers in the alms-house on the first day of February, 1857, was seventeen. During the year two have been admitted, one has been discharged, and one has died, leaving seventeen on the first day of February, 1858. Two hundred and fifteen travelling and transient persons, have been furnished with assistance, by providing them with food and lodging, as occasion required. The Superintendent and Matron of the alms-house, are the same as last year, and fully sustain their reputation for keeping a comfortable and orderly house. 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.