SAD CASE OF DESTITUTION.
(Fm Unitbd Press Association.)
CamsTcinrecH,' July 18.
A child named Munday died suddenly lost night. As there was a possibility of death having been accelerated through the child not having sufficient food, in consequence of tho poverty of the mother, a Times reporter visited the house. He found Mrs Munday living in a house almost destitute of. furniture. The dead
little one was lying decently covered in one corner of the room, and the widow was much distressed.. She did not herself at tribute death to starvation, but she said that sometimes, she was.short of food for the children.. She had had no firing in the house till a bag of coals had been Bent her that mornirjg. She was not able to buy boots for the children. : She received 7s from the Charitable Aid Board, 4s of which goes in rent. She sometimes earns about 4s a month herself, but according, to her. own statement is almost friendless.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 8861, 19 July 1890, Page 4
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163SAD CASE OF DESTITUTION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 8861, 19 July 1890, Page 4
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