A brief record of the Female Orphan House, North Circular Road, Dublin, for over one hundred years, from 1790 to 1892 / compiled by Nemo.

Date:
[1893]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A brief record of the Female Orphan House, North Circular Road, Dublin, for over one hundred years, from 1790 to 1892 / compiled by Nemo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ A proper book or books to be provided for the use of the Matron to enter regular accounts of the several articles of clothing made or unmade ; and of all other articles entrusted to her care ; and that such book or books be kept ready for the inspection of the Board at all times when called for. “The Matron to deliver to the Registrar before eleven o’clock in the morning of each Board day, regularly, a list of the orphans in the House, specifying the several emplo>ments of each and the work or works done by them, distinguishing the work done for the House from such work as shall be done for private persons who may send in the same, and for which they are to pay ; and also tlie amount of the money earned by tlie orphans from Board day to ]5oard day, in order that the Registrar may lay the aloremen- tioned list before the Board, and that a proper account be keiR thereof.” “No money or any other matter or thing be demamied, taken, accepted, or received, by any person employed in the Orphan House, in the way of gratuity, fee, reward, profit or present on any pretence whatsoever, either for themselves, or for any other person, of or from any person or persons supplying the Orphan House with provisions, or any other article or articles ; or from any person or persons employed to do any work at or for the (Irphaii House; or of or from any relation, friend, or connection of any orphan or orphans at present admitted, or which shall hereafter be admitted, or who are soliciting, or may hereafter solicit, for the admittance of any child or children into the Or|)han House, upon pain oi immediate dismissal by the first Board that shall be held after the offence shall be discovered, and reported to the Board, and fair copies of this order signed by the Secretary, shall be pasted up in the Board- room, the matron’s room, the school-room, the dormitories, the hall and the kitchen of the Orphan House for the information of all parties concerned, and that none may plead ignorance thereof.” The following articles of clothing are allowed annually to each of the Orphans: — “A jacket and skirt of green stuff, three bibs and aprons of chequered linen, one bib and apron of white linen, two pair of cuffs of white linen, three day caps, two night caps, three shifts,' two flannel petticoats, three pair of worsted stockings, one pair of shoes, one tippet of white linen, two pocket handkerchiefs, three tuckers, two bed gowns of chequered linen for the large children, and one for each of the small, one hat (straw) bound with green ribbon, one pair of pockets, one cloak, one pair of gloves. These to be kept up by the annual addition of one of each of the above mentioned articles.”