TREATMENT OF CHILDREN
A WIDOW’S STRCGGLE-S. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LOXDOX, March ". In the House of Lords, Lord Selborne referred to the imprisonment of the widow to whom reference was made in a message on February 20. Ho said he had been informed that the children were well fed. hut the mother, who was earning len shillings per week, could not buy clothes to send thorn to school. She know that discovery meant a prosecution for overcrowding and separation from the children, of whom she was fond. If those statements were true it was a most piteous case. The previous message staled tlint as the result of a charge laid hy the Society for the Protection of Childi%n, a charwoman was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. She occupied a stinking, dark; and fireless room in Clerkenwcll with three barely-clothed and starving children, who are bordering on idiocy. They were fed with broken victuals, which the woman look home. The Magistrate described the ease as one of mediaeval barbarity.
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Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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169TREATMENT OF CHILDREN Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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