Case 4202

R

Female

R's mother, "a very respectable woman", died in March 1892 of "gastric cancer". Since her death the conditions in which the family lived had worsened. R's father drank and was generally neglectful of his many children, seven of whom lived with him in one room. R's eldest sister had been in the Infirmary for 6 weeks and she had the responsibility of looking after the youngest children. The police were on the "look out" for her 16 year old brother. R., "a bright and intelligent child" was accepted by the Society as a deserving case and was received into St Cuthbert's Home for Girls, Darlington in April 1894. In October 1898 she went into service in Kentish Town, London.