WAIFS.
To those unacquainted with . Hungary it may come as a, surprise, says the "Lancet," "to find existing in that country a system of public 'care for destitute cliildren conceived in a spirit above anything as yet achieved in England!. The children • who are not'invalided or otherwise disqualified are boarded out is soon"ns possible. -This is effected''in selected villages under selected, foster-parents without re gard to,locality, of birth or distance. The executive in each centre supervises the colonies strictly, and provides' carefully for the" future of cach child on his,discharge'from tutelage. Each child's medical history'furnishes'not only statements as to such ■ ordinary -points as insanity ~r tubor'culosis, 'but 'contains remarks', as to hereditary:neurasthenia,,.perhaps:..the first: official recognition .of .''.Weary. W;il„lie"'as'an hereditary factor.in .the State.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 5
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122WAIFS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 5
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