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/I.** ly to cause injury to health.” The fo on lowing is an extract from a capitalifcontemporary’s report of the case. The elder . . .carried on an institi as tion called the . . . Home, where sh ce received a number of children, and I Id- is alleged, neglected them.2st Three medical witnesses were cal en ed, one stating that he had never see an a more miserable lot of children. Th nd tips of their noses, their chins, the!lips, and their hands and feet wer sh blue with cold. There was not a smil re. amongst them.of Another doctor said it was one c lot the worst cases he had ever seen, ad Suffer little children to come unt lat me. has been made a common prt nd cept, but its practical application tc he day becomes, for the most part, a flenc ed ish mockery. The similar cases no ey a great while since reported in Esse: •k- of gross, inhuman neglect toward; in- children, dictated by the hunger fo ad the financial gain; the Parish noticei tie of the intention to emigrate” (tin he term transport” has gone out of fash) li- ion, but the operation persists undei r, other names) deserted children of al n ages and their atrocious treatmem jy meted out to the defenceless Barn d ado’s brats” by our God-fearing colon ir ial cousins in Canada (the facts aboul at which are now breaking through the js interested conspiracy of silence) com ze bine to make it clear that the traffic a in children is as rampant as ever, and r, that private individuals and public in-a stitutions alike are as ready as ever io to deliver them to untold misery for t, the sake of a handful of gold, or to get t- rid of their unwelcome charges. These
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Vancouver Western Clarion
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Sat, May 27, 1911
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