Ref: CF19917_03
Title: Statement from the application form in case file 19917, mentioning the health of the child's parents
Date: 1915
Description: When applications were made for children to enter The Children's Society's care, details of the children's family circumstances were often given. This application form states that the child's father had died of 'consumption' [tuberculosis] and that the child's mother had entered an asylum, being 'run down' and 'in a low-spirited way' after giving birth to the child's brother.

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