FIRST ANNUAL

A REPORT, &c.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

THE SPEECHES DELIVERED,

AND OF

THE GILD PREMIUMS
PREMIUMS AWARDED

FOR THE

CLEANEST AND TIDIEST KEPT HOUSES.

EDINBURGH, 21ST OCTOBER 1842.

AND AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING VARIOUS PAPERS ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF
THE WORKING CLASSES OF THE COMMUNITY, AND

ITS POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT.

"It is consoling to discover the possibility of a considerable abridgement [of
existing evils]-a probability of lessening the whole, and a certainty of greatly im-
proving the condition, and of increasing the comforts, of the labouring people."
COLQUHOUN "On Indigence."

EDITED BY THE RIGHT REVEREND BISHOP GILLIS.

EDINBURGH:

PUBLISHED FOR THE HOLY GILD BY

WILLIAM MONTIGNANI, 22, LEITH STREET.

MDCCCXLIII.