CARING FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 8

CARING FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN

Now lEatb the epidemic ia over, the vquestion of the future care and up'jbnnging of the -children who have behenme orphans as a result is beginning to ■receive public attention. The suggestion *hat they should be handed over to a -charitable institution or placed in a •"Government industrial school is vigorously opposed by a number of citizens who "were spoken to to-day on the subject. [They are firmly of opinion that these .lttle sufferers—victims of the epidemic no fault of their own—should •wt be thrown on charity, but that -every fandearour should be made to reooin'jpense them for their loss and to bring fthem up properly, the same as their would have done had they lived. , The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), discuss>Jing the subject, said his desire was that, *5f possible, the little victims should be .placed out into individual homes, preference being gram to those people who ■ware willing to adapt them. The re--maittder should be placed and paid for fiy the Government in individual homes, -where they would receive the benefits of iatmly life. He was strongly against placing the children in any elating institution or • specially created establishment They should all be placed with families,. if possible, and some existing ' or new society might be charged with the duty of seeing that they were well cared ■ for; He readily_ believed that -there were people in this city who were willing to see to this. He feR. also, t^at the Government would realise the claims of these children for just and 'adequate treatment. '