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Case 941

18. Letter from Hemel Hempstead about overcrowding 18 May 1895

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-- we then number fifteen. the two little ones you mention will again make seventeen. I could manage for a little. -- is officially sixteen in June, if she could go to a laundry House for a time and work with girls her own age she might learn to get her living in that way. service she is quite unfit for, being "deficient" The doctor has just commenced another "[gland]" and we would like to see if it causes any change. I hope you may be able to carry this out, so that I may have the little ones. Dr. Turner says if they come today I am to return them as he considers our makeshift arrangements

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