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Case 941

18. Letter from Hemel Hempstead about overcrowding 18 May 1895

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I fetched -- last Sunday. I put her on [?] bed in cloak cupboard - with window - the only available space & not suitable - she made you know eighteen. There is a girl in the Home -- who has suffered from deep seated ophthalmia, at the present time I am taking her to Westminster Hospital, where the opinion is that disease may be arrested, but not cured, and that the girl

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