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Wasteful Public Charities
Children are being corrupted and living untamed, lives and valuable property are endangered, old people and invalids are needlessly worn and worried with discomfort, curable patients are becoming incurable. Perhaps we shall see, before long, one of those horrors where 30 or 40 human beings are roasted alive. God is not unmindful of sins and omissions, and will hold the guilty to strict account....
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Title: Wasteful Public Charities
Creator: n/a
Date: September 28, 1877
Format: Article
Publication: Springfield Republican
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: p.2
Keywords: Aging; Alcohol; Almshouses; Architecture; Attendants; Blind; Charity; Children; Cognitive Disability; Disease; Doctors; Economics; Educational Institutions; Employment; Government; Government Agencies; Hospitals; Immigration; Insanity; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Physical Disability; Poverty; Prison; Prostitution; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Religion; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Springfield Home For Friendless Women And Children; Springfield, MA; Statistics; Urban Life; Work
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy