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296 EMIGRATION AS A PREVENTIVE AGENCY.
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Matory Since Movement The Above , Was It...
The stranger could do nothing except give the small immediate aid necessary to procure the sufferer a bed in a model
lodginghouse , and having ascertained that with all the eagerness of life left in her she grasped at the hope of salvation , send her to
oneof the ten homes established in different parts of London by one _Society—^ fchafc " for the Rescue of Young Women and Children' ** ——with the addition of letter
a to the secretary , though even that is not necessary . Two hundred thus sent by strangers have been admitted during the past year into these homes . None are sent away for
whom accommodation can be found . Some are restored to their friends , but the majority are restored to society as hard-working
servants , a class from which the majority have fallen—and not such _, a bad economical product affcer all .
It may be mentioned here that it is the rule of this society to receive applicants at once and without any formality ; and also as a
telling fact that its columns of subscriptions contain a list of upwards of sixty " former inmates " whose contributions vary from
one shilling to four pounds ten . Thus this and kindred societies aid , instead of superseding ,
individual effort . Without their help the stranger must pass by on the other side , knowing that he or she can give no effectual assistance .
By their help he or she is summoned to individual exertion ; summoned not only to add an item to the subscrition listsbut to aid
the effort and to promote general success . p , For the class of degraded women emigration does not offer a
very fair field . From the same cause which now forces us to keep our convicts at home and reform them if possible before sending them
out from among us—namely , that the colonies will not receive themmust this unhappy class be kept among us at least until they have
earned a character which may enable them to cover the stains of the past . The Society we have mentioned , as well as the Reformatory
and Refuge Union , which has lately employed female missionaries for the reclaiming of the lost of their own sex , have used , but very
sparingly , the agency of emigration . As an indication of the feeling which prevails in the colonies and is rapidly extendingand which
ought to guide the leaders of the reformatory movement , in availing themselves of the outlet of emigrationthe following letter
relating to the first emigration from the Bloomsbury , School may be given . It may be stated that the experiment was repeated this
spring , but still on too small a scale to meet the wants and wishes of the colonists .
" Sir , —A few days since , you were good enough to insert a few lines from me , announcing the expected arrival of ten irlsabout
fourteen years of age , under the protection of the matron g , of the Bloomsbury Industrial Schooland specially recommended by the
, good Earl of Shaftesbury to the favorable notice of M . Hawk .
* Secretary , D . Cooper , Esq ., 11 , Poultry , E . C .
296 Emigration As A Preventive Agency.
296 EMIGRATION AS A PREVENTIVE AGENCY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/8/
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