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* There was a printing press at the Asylum from 1800 [http://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&pg=PA77 Limited View Google Books] page 77, ''Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India'' by Stuart Blackburn (2005)
* The Madras Veterinary Establishment was set up in 1810 and boys from the Military Male Asylum and the Charity School were to be trained in the veterinary art, with the eventual rank of farriers. [http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA159 Google Books]
* Drummers are mentioned in this [http://books.google.com/books?id=88UoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 link] published 1838 Google Books*Seven boys (of not less than twelve years of age and of ‘pure European descent‘) arrived in Sydney in February 1841. Refer [[Australia#Orphans|Australia-Orphans]]
*Diet of the boys in 1863 [http://books.google.com/books?id=2xm1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA401 page 401] Google books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA61 1864-1865 Report] Google Books. This report is in the middle of a volume of reports relating to the Civil Asylums.
