To the Editor of the Hebald. Sib, — Permit me to impart to .your readers thn knowledge of the astounding fact contained in tho following sentence, which I extract from an article on " Neglpcted Children" in tlio columns of the JCethodht liccnrdcr for Septe.'i btir IU, 1869:—" It ie, we believo, an ascertained fact, that amongst tho abstuini"£ portion of the population, amounting to about 3,300,000 in the United Kingdom, there are no thievrs, no roughs, no tramp?, no paupers, but few lunatics, and not one deserted o- noglectod child !"—and to as'-, whev.ee then do the ovila under which we »roau come — disease, poverty, destitution, and premature death arise ?—I am, &c. N. K. A. Auckland, December 8, 18G9.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1842, 9 December 1869, Page 4
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