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Some Cases In Brief
A homeless, destitute and deformed orphan girl was removed from undesirable surroundings and placed in the Eyre Refuge, where she is thriving and happy.
Contribution was made towards the repatriation to Trinidad of a British subject and her infant son who had been left destitute in this Colony.
Owing to the death of her husband, a woman and her four children were left entirely without means. A member of the Society obtained a hawker's licence for the woman and the Society supplied her with stock-in-trade. She is now making a living. The Society also arranged an apprenticeship for the eldest boy,
The
The mother of a seven-day old child died. family consisted of a grandmother, the father and two The in- children, and the monthly income was $15.00. fant suffered from intestinal trouble through improper feeding and later developed bronchitis. The Society's advice and help was sought and the Inspector obtained medical treatment for the child and arranged for the supply of milk. The infant is now cured and doing
well.
The Inspector found a boy begging in the street not in the and on enquiry found that the father was Colony and that the mother and her two children were destitute. A hawker's licence and stock were provided for the mother and she is now making just enough to live on.
A six months old boy, the child of parents whose monthly income was $9, was reported by the doctor in charge of the Central Public Dispensary to be suffering from rickets and to require milk and osteomalt. These are being supplied by the Society.
Extract from the Constitution of the Society
The aims and objects of the Society shall be:-
(1) To protect children and young persons by pre- venting, removing or mitigating any wrongs or injustices done to them; to safeguard their morals; to prevent any act which causes or is likely to cause them un- necessary suffering or injury to their health; and generally to protect the interest of children.
(2) To take all necessary steps for the enforcement of any existing law for their protection or in their in- terests, and to advocate and promote any ameudn.cnt of any law which may be considered desirable for their protection or in their interests.
(3) To take such steps by personal, written or printed statements, public meetings, or otherwise as may be deemed expedient for the purpose ef educating the public generally in the interests of the welfare of the young.
(4) To provide and maintain an organization for the above objects.
(5) To do all other such lawful things as are in- cidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.
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