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408 THE XABIES ? EVIDENCE.-—POOR RELIEF,
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_stated that she had paid particular attention to the condition of pattper children in workhouses ; mfirmariesi and _district schools .
> With reference to girls brought up inworHiouses ,-. 'itisemphatically declared that they can _neverso long as they f remain _inmatesybf
, duties these huge to fit establishments them for future , have life . means Every of thing learning is done aiay j _]^ domestic steam ,
even the potatoes cooked by machinery . In the humblest homes outside the workhouse a girl acquires much useful knowledge , aiid
at least learns the value of property . The majority of girls of tKe latter class who go out to service , get on well through means of
this experience of common life , though they may never have -got regular training for domestic service ; while , on the contrary ,
tradespeople complain that workhouse girls are of no use to them / and are perfectly helpless . The necessity of minute _classification
, and the prevention of any association between the young girls and the adult femaleswere forcibly dwelt upon ; and the instance cited
, of the _Norwich Homes , wherein the _children are not brought up as paupersbut retain their self-respectfeel no degradation at being
, , inmates of the home , and turn out in such a way as to prove the experiment to be completely successful . -
Religious influence , as distinguished from religious teaching- _^ for Miss Carpenter remarks that a child may -be very , well taught _ .
in its Catechism and yet be very wicked- —is altogether wanting in the general workhouse system . _^ Without an _incision of the
voluntary element pauper children cannot be instructed ; and in _' di- " vidual care cannot be given to them . The literary instruction in
workhouses is as good as need be , but the children get no industrial training to fit them for getting through the world when they leave
the workhouse . " From my experience , " adds Miss Carpenter , _"J would rather have to deal _toith a dozen youthful thieves than , a similar
number of pauper children J' "•• \ . ; Mrs . Woodlock was examined on the condition of girls in Irish
workhouses , the manner in "which they turn out when they leave , the inadequacy of the system of poor relief to meet the wants of
the country , and the light in which such relief is regarded by the poor themselves . This lady can speak from experience of no
common kind . For many years she has devoted time and thought , to the promotion and management of industrial schools in her own
country , and has been actively and personally engaged in co-operation with charitable associations , botH at home and in France ,
organized for the relief of the poor and the education of the young _. By means of one of her schools alone , eighty girls were at one
time rescued from the workhouse , taught to earn a livelihood , and - permanently provided for . Particular attention was directed to the
case of some fifteen girls who were not long sincetakenout of _'tib & workhouse and received into St . Joseph's Industrial Institute _^ of
the which support Mrs . Woodlock of these girls is the was manager to save them The from object the in adult undertakirig wards
408 The Xabies ? Evidence.-—Poor Relief,
408 THE XABIES EVIDENCE .- —POOR RELIEF ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/48/
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