LONDON'S SLUMS.
A SHOCKING CASE. DISCUSSED BY THE LOKDS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright London, March 4. On February 20, as the result of a charge laid by the Society for the Protection of Children, a widow, a charwoman, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. She occupied a stinking, dark, fireless room in C'lerkenwell, with three barely-clothed, starving children who were bordering on idiocy and were fed with the broken victuals the woman took home. The magistrate described the case as one of mediaeval barbarity. Referring to the case in the House of Lords, Lord Selbornc said he was informed that the children were well fed. The mother was earning 20s weekly and could not buy clothes to send the children to school. She knew that discovery meant prosecution for overcrowding and her separation from her children when they were found. If his information were true it wag a most piteous case. The Archbishop of Canterbury contended that the law did not compel boards of guardians to break up homes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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169LONDON'S SLUMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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