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THE I^DIE S^ E^IDENQiE^f—-POOR \RELIEF. ...
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. v , mtp _^ Mc _azId _> _^ _. _•; _- _C _--1 _^ ihLe _t _^ / _- _. _-v _vTOt la _^ rv _hpllt directs _' _' _- _' _' _^ ; _^ g _oteetioIl irls to _' _< _: among be removed the herd < at fifteen of profli years gate of
_, ; women age , _^ _. , wlio frequent ¦ these _p wards , : It was contemplated to teach . item to be selfrsupportingand train them to become respectable
, members of society ; . The girls , however , though selectedwith care , ( ten out of the fifteen having been monitresses in the union school )
, were so imbued with the vices peculiar to the class of pauper childrenthat it was found a matter of great difficulty to deal with
them . , They were so indolent and apathetic , so devoid of any feeling of independence , so violent or ? so sulky , so utterly ignorant
of the ordinary things of life , not knowing even the names of common objects and household utensils , in a word , so useless and
intractable expected from , as g to irls lead broug to the ht up conclusion to fifteen that or sixteen very little years good of can age be in
a workhouse . The contrast between these girls and the general run of children- reared in families outside , was forcibly illustrated
-by _|; he-witness . Children , ' it was shown , get no training at all in workhouses for useful habits ; cannot ? possiblreceive religious and
y -moral care , collected as they are in masses , without sufficient supervision ; are by their position deprived of the ordinary means by
which character is developed ; and are subjected neither to the usual religious influences ; nor to N the check of public opinion ,
nor to tlie effect of family ties . ; The tendency of Mrs . ; Wobdlock's evidence wasto show that children should be reared entirely apart
r from the workhouse ; that a very high order of female supervision . shouldbe _» employed in establishments for pauper children ; ' and
that the voluntary system _^ as represented in the co-operation of lady visitors with guardians and officers , should be extensively adopted .
Minute nioral classification of workhouse inmates was insisted upon _strongly ; and in answer ; to ; a remark that there would be difficulty
in , carrying out such a plan , Mrs . Woodlock observed , that , considerations of expense should not _tveigh against the . demoralisation of a
country . , _¦' ' ¦ .. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ _> ¦ '¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ' '¦; ' ¦ '¦ - ¦ ¦ . ¦ _* ' ¦ ¦ ' " ' ¦ "' _r The evidence of these ladies was strikingly corroborated by the
testimony of some _i : of the ; guardians who appeared as witnesses ; but into this , we , shall not enter at _prasent . Surely the high
reflected light - cast by these investigations upon the condition of necessit workhouse y of life a radical , must change Impress in tjie all entire thoughtful system minds . _^ _Heneeforti with the ,
ignorance of ; facts can ; no long _^ er hold as an excuse for inaction . Legislation _hlto and - individual mQde of effort dealing . nnist with work the conj ointl becomes y , until the a
_^ thoroug ule of legal y as _^ ane well ; - as private charity . We think poor women have ? much _-tp do with this . Eventuallya wider scope must be allowed
for woman in the appointed -and , chosen sphere of her charitable _ministrations-T—in ithe _^^ _nxixBmg of the children the State has charge
Macmillarfs * A masterl -Magazine y hand has for A sketched _-p _^ l _j 1861 . daily scenes of workliouse life in _, voii . i vii . g a
The I^Die S^ E^Idenqie^F—-Poor \Relief. ...
THE I _^ DIE S _^ E _^ _IDENQiE _^ f— -POOR _\ _RELIEF . 409 _^
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/49/
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