(Rocquam, "Etat de France au 18e Brumaire,"
p.33. Report of Fran?ois de Nantes.) At Troyes, out of 164 brought in
in year IV., 134 die; out of 147 received in year VII., 136 die.
(Albert Babeau, II., 452.) At Paris, in year IV., out of 3,122 infants
received 2,907 perish. (Moniteur, year V., No. 231.) - The sick
perish the same. "At Toulon, only seven pounds of meat are given each
day to eighty patients; I saw in the civil Asylum," says Fran?ois de
Nantes, "a woman who had just undergone a surgical operation to whom
they gave for a restorative a dozen beans on a wooden platter."
(Ibid., 16, 31, and passim, especially for Bordeaux, Caen, Alen?on,
St. L?, etc.) - As to beggars, these are innumerable: in year IX., it
is estimated that there are 3 or 4,000 by department, at least 300,000
in France. "In the four Brittany departments one can truly say that a
third of the population live at the expense of the other two-thirds,
either by stealing from them or through compelling assistance."
(Rocquain, "Report by Barb?-Marbois," p.93.)
3rd. In year IX., the Consells-generaux are called upon to ascertain
whether the departments have increased or diminished in population
since 1789.
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