DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5289, 20 June 1928, Page 2

DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES.

THE ANNUAL MEETING. At the annual general business meeting of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes National incorporated Association on •May 9, the report showed that up to December 31 last 104,156 children had entered the homes, and and 17,915 children and young people were dealt with during the year. The new admissions in 1927 totalled 2025, 164'8 being permanent admissions and 377 temporary. Nearly 80' per cent.of the children came from the provinces, and a little over 20 per cent, from, the metropolis. On an average 5 children came in rally. The children were admitted from almost every county in the Kingdom. The average number of children in residence throughout the year was 7716. Included in this large. family were 1203 babies and toddlers under 5 ; 422 crippled, invalid’, blind, deaf and dumb, physically afficted, br sick children ; 1087 boys and girls were under industrial or technical in'sfructiop. in workshops and workrooms; 2189 young people were placed out during the year; 29,661 had been migrated to Canada and Australia, and the overseas Dominions up to the end of 1927. The homes consist of 176 separate cottages, households, a.nd branches all over the Kingdom, in addition to hundreds of boarding-out centres in rural districts. The income for the year from ahi sources, ordinary and special, amounted to £521,514, and tlie expenditure to .£521,499.