A GOOD WORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 3

A GOOD WORK.

” DR. BARNARDQ’S. HOMES”!* “The mother died from starvation last December.” This is one sentence Jh’om the records of Dr. Barnardolb Homes of the case of little Sarah.'and ...Jane, aghs Band 4, arid suffices to tell the whole aqigic ston?.: A good wife and' niqishjf ; a xlecent husband; tvjunpirigw%k after week in search of work'/Ttlirise .ire the outstanding features in this sad narrative] and the end after-all the striving is “Death from starvation.” Think of it! The hard unequal struggle to keep death from the door in this land, of civilisation—willing to work, seeing wife and children warituig bare necessities, and yet unable to provide them. The heart-rending pity of it! Enough to drive man or woman to desperation under the strain. These, writes the Honorary Director of the Homes, are two of the thousands of children whom by uiocl’s help, they are able to succour, in a booklet entitled “IF,” is shown what would have happeded if 75,000 children had not passed through the Rescue Doors. The great majority of these children would have become paupers, and been chargeable to the State The average cost of each indoor pauper in England and Wales is £27 14s so that 75,000 extra paupers would cost something like two million pounds per annum. Many of these children would have drifted into crime; instead of that, they are being made into law-abiding and useful citizens. These 75,000 boys and girls holding hands would make a line about miles long. They would stretch from Loudon to Canterbury; or they would circle Greater London. This number is considerably more than the population of Huntingdonshire or Westmoreland, and it nearly equals the population of Cambridgeshire. It equals the population of Peterborough, Salisbury, Chelmsford, Warwick and Kenilworth, all added together. The figure 75,000 acquires terrible significance if it is added to the population of our gaols, reformatories, workhouses, and to swell the roll 'of the.,drunkards, the street beggars, and tho generally unfit. ..The Charter of the Homes is, as it always has been, “No Destitute Child ; fiver Refused Admission,” and an .urgent appeal is made for funds to parry on this Chist’an, National, hrid Philanthropic work. Their Majesties the King, the Queen, and Queen Alexandra are Patrons. Gifts of all kinds—money, clothing, blankets, toys, etc., will be specially welcomed at this Christmas Season by tho Honorary Director, Mr. William Baker, LL.B., at Headquarters, 18 to 2G, Stepney Causeway, London, E.