Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker.

  • Richard Dimsdale Stocker
Date:
1910
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Credit: Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    might be—do we even show the sentiment of | gratitude towards them, that we owe them ? j What is being done by Society to-day to ' enable the mother to fulfil her duties to her ! child and the state ? Something, certainly. But, surely, little enough. To be sure, there are the benefit societies. Then we find that, in certain cases, meals are being provided, either free or at cost price, to nursing mothers. Dinners are also dispensed, in some cases, to the children. While, in others, infant sterilised milk is obtain- ' able, either free or at the ordinary cost. Also, ! we have the various clubs and police-aided ij clothing schemes to school children, our orphan- | age asylums, creches, and foundling hospitals, - all of which may be said to do useful work. | Further, we have our present poor-law system— ; medical relief for the mothers and their children, \ and such aid as is rendered to widows with ‘j legitimate children, or to the wives of disabled j persons who reside in the borough. And, in addition, we have the free education of all children up to the age of fourteen years. The fact, however, remains that in spite of ^
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