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Case 4202

2. Letter from Miss W. 9 March 1894

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a girl of 21 has been in the Infirmary for the last six weeks, & has just come home; the boy aged 16 is at home, but the police are on the look out for him; a neighbour has been looking after the baby while the girl was in the Infirmary, but cannot see to her longer; besides these there is a girl of 10, a boy of 9, a girl of 7, a boy of 5. Several years ago I had the eldest girl in my class, & the mother I knew very well, she was a very respectable hard working woman, after she died they have gone very much down in the world the names address is


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