| Description | Date admitted: 21 Aug 1906
Age: 16
Address: no home
Circumstances: found destitute in Alfred Gelder Street at midnight by Sergeant Folgate who sent her to this home, she was admitted, on inquiries being made it was found that the girl's parents were dead and that she had been brought up in a workhouse. The authorities had fitted her out well for service and obtained a situation for her but she had turned out to be a very bad girl. She had wasted her clothing and was so very lazy that no one could keep her many hours
Days in the home: 4
Date left the home: 24 Aug 1906
Situation on departure: she was sent to the shelter home in Peel Street until a permanent home could be found for her
Bound volume containing handwritten entries including: date of admission; age, name, address and circumstances; situation on departure and monies donated |