PAUPER CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3022, 22 October 1878, Page 4

PAUPER CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND.

For very many years the guardians of the poor for Goyan parish, Glasgow, have been in the habit of boarding their pauper orphan children who happened to be affected with scrofula, or were otherwise in delicate health, in the island of Arran, which is owned by the Duke of Hamilton. Of late complaints have been made as to allowing the pauper children to attend the schools, and as a result of communications on the subject, the Duke bas issued a peremptory order that all the pauper children must leave the island. A deputation of the poor law guardians waited on the Duke's factor and requested that the rule should only apply to children who were diseased or ill-behaved, but the factor said he could not draw the line—all must go; and he even hinted, it is said, that the order may yet apply to those who Were pauper children, but who had grown up and entered into respectable service and even contracted marriages. The latter proceeding, it was alleged, was deteriorating the population of the island. The people who house the poor children, and to whom they have become much attached, are greatly concerned about the order, but, as they only hold yearly leases, they have no opinion but to obey the mandate of the Duke,—Times.