A DREADFUL CATALOGUE.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 144, 4 September 1895, Page 3

A DREADFUL CATALOGUE.

The Rev. Benjamin Waugh, secretary of that Society, in making his annual appeal for funds lately, asked the British public to imagine* a procession of 109,000 children as representing those whom the Society has helped during the ten years of its existence. He said :—' The' first 25,437 are sufferers from violence—from boots, crockery, panß, shovels, straps, ropes, thongs, pokers, fire, boiling water, boiling water, any weapon which came to the reckless and vengeful hands which owned them—bruised, cut, burned, scalded, plaßtered, bandaged. Following these come 62,887 sufferers from neglect and starvation —shivering, ragged, nigh naked, pale, limp, feeble, faint, dizzy, puny, sinking, famine-stricken, dying—many carried in tho arms of nurses of inSrmaiy and hospital. At the close of these would come 712 funerals, where ill-treatment ended fatally. Still following come 12,663 little things exposed to suffering to draw the lazy and cruel charity of tho street. Then come 4,460 pitiable girlchild victims of vice, and after them 3,205 little s'aves'oi" improper and hurtful employment and dangerous performances, and child monstrosities in travelling shows. The imagined procession is sixty miles long, and would take twenty-four hours to pass.'