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THE WANSTEAD INIAJST ORPHAN ASYLUM. 189
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seven infant years Formerl of age the , this children opens its left protecting when ei - ht door years to old the , youngest now the g
. y boys fifteen are : retained many of until these they children are fourteen are the , and orp the hans girls of until suddenl clergymen they are cut ,
off solicitors , leaving , merchants their large , and families officers destitute , who . have Children been are also y admitted if the father is paralyzed or a confirmed lunatic , and the
mother and well is educated by . that means in this unable establishment to support and them are thoroug . They hl are y ground clothed
ed * in allowed the princi to visit ples of their the friends Church once of Eng a , year land . but The those senior under children seven
production are are only allowed of a medical to do so certificate in case stating of serious , that illness the , disease and on is not the
infectious . Each child may be visited by its relations once in two monthson Mondays or Thursdays , but if the mother re-marries ,
, the child must be removed . The subscriptions are as follow :
_Annual _Subscription . £ s . d _. For vote at each election . . . 0 10 6
one For two votes „ ,, ... 110 Life _Subscription .
For one vote at each election . . . 5 5 0 For two votes ,, ,, . . . 10 10 0
Votes increasing with the subscription . Life _Presentation .
Entitling to one child always on the _foxuidation 250 0 0 Clergymen presenting congregational collections five are constituted thus
governors tributed . , Ladies and have collecting a life the vote sum for of every five guineas guineas or upwards con will - be entitled to a life vote for every five guineas so contributed . In the to admission
election of the children , those have an especial claim - whose Upwards parents of _Rve have hundred been children in the most are now respectable in this circumstances Asylum ; the . under the
intendence educational them for any of department position the chap in lain consists life , they and of may every four hereafter schools effort is , hold made , and to qualif to super give y - them the love of " that which , if they are poor , will render their
poverty respectable , comfort , adorn , and never quit them ; which will asylum open against to them the a cruelty kingdom the of injustice thought and ; which the pain will which prove may an
be their lot in the outer , world—that , which will make their motives great and honorable , and light up in an instant a thousand
noble disdains at the very thought of meanness or fraud . "
The Wanstead Iniajst Orphan Asylum. 189
THE WANSTEAD _INIAJST ORPHAN ASYLUM . 189
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/45/
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