Charity for London children (1895)

Post date: Feb 12, 2012 3:37:35 PM

Extract from October 1895 parish magazine:

Some thoughtful women in our parish have achieved an excellent work. A few ladies, well supported by people in general, got up a concert for the purpose of producing funds to give some sick London children a short holiday in the country. This is ancient history; but the result is not so well known.

Sixteen children from the East London Hospital for Children at Shadwell were brought down to this parish. Mistresses Bristow, Hook, Huggett, Maynard, and Rooke kindly took them in and did well by them in return for small sums of money to defray expenses. Three of the children stayed for three weeks , the rest for a fortnight, and very sorry were they to go, and very sorry were their whilom mothers to lose them. One little starveling, by the by, a veritable starveling of eighteen months, is, by an extra effort , being kept for two or three months.

This kind of thing is the best possible form of charity; it should also make our native children thankful that they have homes far away from London fog and smoke in so beautiful a village as Wateringbury.