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“Dr. Barnardo’s Homes for Orphan & Destitute Children.” 
 
 President for 1894-1895: 
 
 The Right Hon. the lord brassey, k.c.b. 
 
 Vice-Presidents: 
 
 TheRt. Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. D.D. 
 
 The Rt. Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN, D.D. 
 The Rt. Rev. BISHOP CHEETHAM. D.D. 
 
 JAMES RANKIN, ESQ.. M.P. 
 COLONEL C. E. HOWARD VIN¬ 
 CENT, C.B.. M.P. 
 
 Gen. sir ROBERT PHAYRE, 
 K.C.B. 
 
 The Rev. CANON FLEMING. B.D. 
 
 The Rev. CANON GIRDLESTONE, 
 
 M.A. 
 
 The Rev. NEWMAN HALL. D.D. 
 
 The Very Rev. DEAN PIGOU, D.D. 
 
 Treasurer: william fowler, esq., 33, Comhiii. E.c. 
 trustees • 
 
 The earl OF ABERDEEN, K.P. JAMES E. MATHIESON, ESQ. 
 COLONEL E. DRU DRURY. R. C. MORGAN. ESQ. 
 
 THE LORD KINNAIRD. THE LORD POLWARTH. 
 
 Committee : 
 
 Chairtnan: SAMUEL G. SHEPPARD. Esq., 57, Old Broad .Street, E.C. 
 Vice-Chairman: HOWARD WILLIAMS, Esq., St. Paul s Churchyard, E.C. 
 C. C. M. BAKER, Esq., B.A.. 6, King’s Bench Walk, E.C. 
 
 WM BAKER, Esq., M.A., LL.B., 10, New Court, Carey Street, W.C. 
 
 Rev. CANON BARKER, M.A., Rector of St. Marylebone, W 
 W. ANSTIS BEWES, Esq., LL.B., 3, Stone Buildings, Lincoln sInn, W.C. 
 Rev. J. THAIN DAVIDSON, D.D., 23, Mount Park, Ealing, W. 
 
 Rev. J. B. FIGGIS. M.A., Brighton. 
 
 Rev. D. B. HANKIN, M.A., Vicar of St. Judes. Mildmay. 
 
 Rev. EVAN H. HOPKINS, M.A., Vicar of St. Luke s, Redchffe Square, South 
 Kensington, S.W. . . j 
 
 Rev. DONALD MACLEOD, M.A., D.D., St. Columbas, Church of Scotland, 
 Pont St., Belgravia. 
 
 Rev. F. B. MEYER, B.A., Christ Church, L.ambeth. 
 
 Rev. E. W. MOORE, M.A., Emmanuel Church Parsonage, Wimbledon. 
 
 Hon. and Rev. W. T. RICE. M.A., Rector of St. Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford. 
 
 Rev. J. H. SCOTT, M.A., Rector of Spitalfields, E. 
 
 HEYWOOD SMITH, Esq., M. A., M.D.. 18, Harley Street, W. 
 
 Accountants and Auditors ; 
 
 Messrs. Carter, Clay & Lintott, i. Queen Street, Cheapside, E.C. 
 
 Consulting Auditors : 
 
 Messrs. TURQUAND, YOUNGS & Co., 41, Coleman Street, E.C. 
 
 Bankers: 
 
 London & South-Wkstern Bank (Bow Branch), E. 
 Prescott, dimsdale & Co., Ltd., 50, Cornhill, E.C. 
 
 General Secretary: Mr. John odling. 
 
 Founder and Director— 
 
 To whom all Communications should be addressed — 
 
 THOS. J. BARNARDO. ESQ., F.R.C.S.Ed., 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, 
 
 London, E. 
 
“Mbat baa 
 
 Barnarbo bone?” 
 
 By W. J. Gordon. 
 
 P URING the twenty-eight years 
 that have elapsed since Dr. 
 Barnardo met with the Street 
 “Arab” whose pitiful story set him think¬ 
 ing and working for the helpless and desti¬ 
 tute of East London, he has received for 
 charitable purposes more than a million 
 and a half of money. 
 
 He has rescued, trained, and placed 
 out in life some 27,000 children; he has 
 educated and partly fed and clothed in 
 free day and night schools children not 
 actually destitute to the number of 63,000; 
 he has provided outfit, passage money, 
 and effectual supervision for 7,200 emi¬ 
 grants to the colonies ; he has established 
 four free lodging houses, and given home- 
 
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 less women and children 200,000 free 
 quarters and 560,000 free rations ; he has 
 established four industrial brigades, and 
 aided to an independent livelihood 6,200 
 of the boys who have passed through 
 them ; he has sent 3,100 sick children to 
 his seaside homes ; and he has provided 
 1,320,000 free hot breakfasts and dinners 
 during the winters to children of the 
 labouring class out of work. He has 
 established six mission halls, in which he 
 has had ten million attendances ; he has 
 also established two coffee palaces, in 
 which he has refreshed and entertained 
 over five million people ; he has organised 
 a guild of deaconesses whose house-to- 
 house visitations exceed 20,000 a-year; 
 and last, but not least, he has founded 
 a free medical mission, in which thou¬ 
 sands of cases are dealt with and an 
 enormous number of prescriptions are dis¬ 
 pensed annually. Out of over 1,500,000 
 
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 received, he h<T.s spent on buildings 
 on sites and buildings which have from 
 the very outset been handed over to 
 trustees—^200,000, and in addition to 
 this he has freehold land and buildings 
 in Cana,da to the value of ^22,000. 
 
 Every year his work increases, and as 
 his good report goes all over the world 
 so do the subscriptions come in from 
 the uttermost corners. Last year (1893) 
 he had 82,709 separate donations ; and 
 54,460 of these were in sums under a 
 sovereign, and only 2,100 were of ^10 
 and over. The increase in his revenue is 
 as regular and continuous as its distii- 
 bution. Last year he received 8,713 
 applications and dealt with in all the 
 enormous number of 1334^^ childien, 
 maintaining and educating no fewei than 
 6,847 children in his Homes ; and his 
 death-rate for the year was only a little 
 over 4'| per 1,000. 
 
4 “K'lbnt bits ^unv.trbo bone?” 
 
 The different branches of this immense 
 organisation for well-doing now exceed 
 fifty in number. First there is the Home 
 for Working' and Destitute Lads at from 
 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, where the 
 General Offices are also situated. During 
 the second year of the work, from July, 
 1867, to July, 1868, the income here was 
 £ 214 , and the letters written in regard to 
 it averaged about three a week. In 1893 
 the income was ^134,054, and the letters 
 and parcels received were 154,735, the 
 parcels alone representing over 95,000 
 separate articles. 
 
 Here no destitute child is refused 
 admission ; but inquiry always follows, 
 and, in order that imposture may be 
 minimised, this inquiry is stringent 
 and thorough. The rule is, “Admit 
 first ; inquire afterwards.” The admis¬ 
 sion is without payment, or promise 
 of money, or patronage, or voting or 
 
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 election, and the doors are open day and 
 night. 
 
 In the main building there is accom¬ 
 modation for 400 boys of from 13 to 16 
 years of age, who sleep in four dormi¬ 
 tories containing a hundred each. The 
 rest of the building is mainly devoted 
 to class-rooms and workshops. Twelve 
 different trades and handicrafts are here 
 taught under proper instruction. Besides 
 the shops and the schoolrooms there is a 
 large recreation hall fitted up as a gym¬ 
 nasium ; and below-stairs is a tiled 
 swimming-bath, close to which is the 
 lavatory, where the slabs are of thick 
 glass and the water-jets high enough to 
 give each boy a shower-bath. 
 
 The smaller boys have an establish¬ 
 ment to themselves — Leopold House 
 Orphan Home, at 199, Burdett Road. 
 The very little boys from 5 years old to 
 10 are away at Gorey in Jersey, where 
 
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 they have a peculiarly healthy resort, with 
 the common by the sea fora playground. 
 
 Having thus accounted for 970 boys 
 from 5 years old to 16, let us return to 
 Stepney Causeway. At Nos. 6, 8, and 10 
 in this street you can obtain admission 
 at any time. “For twenty years the 
 lamp of No. 10 has burnt all night long in 
 token of welcome to homeless applicants, 
 for whom a bed and food are always 
 ready.” In these three houses 5,383 boys 
 and girls slept in 1893, and the free 
 meals given the applicants at the All 
 Night Refuge numbered 14,651. 
 
 But the open door is not only for the 
 little ones. In Commercial Road is the 
 Labour House for Destitute Youths, 
 where lads of from seventeen upwards 
 are sheltered and tested for a few months, 
 and if found to be honest, decent, and 
 industrious, have situations found for 
 them. Since this branch was started 
 
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 twelve years ago, 3,50^ have been 
 helped, and given a fresh start in life. 
 
 The houses we have as yet mentioned 
 are on the barrack system ; for the girls, 
 the cottage method is employed. At 
 Barkingside, near Ilford, there is a model 
 village of some 50 separate cottages, and 
 five larger households, with accommoda¬ 
 tion for nearly a thousand inmates, each 
 cottage being supervised by a “ mother,” 
 who has from 16 to 25 girls under her 
 charge. This charming little settlement 
 has lately been made more complete by 
 the addition of one of the prettiest of 
 Children’s Churches, to be followed in 
 due time, it is hoped, by a hospital and 
 new schools. 
 
 Another brigade of the Barnardo army 
 is encamped at Sturge House, in the 
 Bow Road, where there is a Free 
 Registry and Home for Servants, whence 
 about 400 are sent to situations in a year 
 
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 or helped in other ways. For older girls 
 there is another shelter in Alfred Street, 
 Bow Road ; and then, as coping with 
 another difficulty, there is a Factory 
 Girls’ Club and Institute at Limehouse. 
 In addition to these there is the Beehive 
 in Mare Street, Hackney, to which go 
 the girls above the Ilford age ; and, 
 further, there is the Rescue Home. 
 
 The infants used to be sent to Ilford, 
 but there is no room for them there now, 
 and to see them you must journey to 
 Babies’ Castle at Hawkhurst in Kent, 
 where you will find over loo in resi¬ 
 dence, some of them very young indeed. 
 Among the nearly 200 little mites dealt 
 with last year only three deaths occurred. 
 
 Yet another branch is Her Majesty’s 
 Hospital, in Stepney Causeway. Here 
 there are 74 cots. The in-patients for 
 1893 numbered 736, while the out-patients 
 brought the total cases up to nearly 5,000, 
 
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 which shared no less than 498 separate 
 diseases amongst them ! Such is the 
 multitude of our ailments, or the mystery 
 of their classification ! 
 
 Then, also in Stepney Causeway, is the 
 City Messenger Brigade, over 100 strong, 
 and of much the same class is the Shoe¬ 
 black Brigade at Limehouse. With these 
 we may group the Burdett Dormitory, 
 in Burdett Road, where 60 or 70 lads 
 sleep every night, and which is also used 
 as an overflow branch from the Stepney 
 and other Homes. 
 
 Then there are the Children’s Free 
 Lodging-Houses, which last year pro¬ 
 vided 49,000 free meals, and 41,000 free 
 beds for those for whom no other door 
 was open, save the casual ward or the 
 common lodging-house. At these two 
 houses, girls and young women in abso¬ 
 lute want are sheltered, children are given 
 a temporary refuge, and those who have 
 
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 wandered from home are restored to their 
 friends. Another outpost is in Grov^e 
 Road, where the Children’s Fold receives 
 120 little boys of lo and under, until they 
 are moved on to Leopold House. In 
 Copperfield Road are the w^ell-known Free 
 Schools for the children of the district, 
 nearly 830 of whom are under instruction 
 in the week day, while the Sunday attend¬ 
 ance is nearly 2,700. At these schools 
 35,000 free meals were supplied in 1893, 
 besides over 6,000 gifts of clothes. 
 
 In addition to all this, a vast amount 
 of mission work is carried on among the 
 men and women. There is the People’s 
 Mission Church at the Edinburgh Castle, 
 which twenty years ago was a notorious 
 gin-shop and music-hall, where the year’s 
 return shows nearly 330,000 attendances at 
 the services, and over 110,000 attendances 
 at the temperance, social and educational 
 meetings with a P.S.A. of 842 members. 
 
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 Then there are St. Ann’s Gospel Hall, 
 the Earl Cairns Mission Hall, the 
 Gloucester Place Mission Hall, and the 
 East End Medical Mission in Shadwell, 
 where the patients number nearly 9,000 
 a year, and the prescriptions dispensed 
 exceed 20,000. Besides all these there is 
 the Deaconess Institute in Mile End 
 Road, in connection with which about 
 1,400 religious services are held during 
 the year, in addition to the distribution 
 of 9,000 free orders for food, and hospital, 
 and other tickets. The work also includes 
 two coffee palaces, which are practically 
 run as workmen’s clubs, one of them 
 having a good gymnasium. 
 
 But these are mere offshoots, necessary 
 and natural; the main work is with the 
 children. Of these 1,355 were last year 
 boarded out in no rural centres, while 
 over 300 of the weakly were treated for a 
 change of air at the convalescent home 
 
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 at Felixstowe. Farther to the north of 
 this, at Yarmouth, is one of the shipping 
 agencies from which some of the bigger 
 boys are found situations on fishing- 
 smacks and small coasters. Another of 
 these shipping agencies is at Cardiff, 
 where berths are mostly obtained for 
 them on long-voyage trading vessels. 
 
 In other situations in this country, 
 1,587 girls and boys were placed ; and 
 these beginners in life are not lost sight 
 of, but are encouraged to continue in 
 touch with the institution, and one of the 
 not least interesting events at the annual 
 meetings is the distribution of prizes to 
 some 300 or more old boys and girls who 
 have kept their situations with credit, 
 some of them for nine years. 
 
 But a large number of those that pass 
 through the homes leave the country as 
 emigrants.* These are said to be “the 
 flower of the flock ” ; only those are sent 
 
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 who are in robust physical and mental 
 health, who have proved themselves to be 
 honest, and virtuous, and who have been 
 specially trained for colonial life. 
 
 In Canada the Homes have three 
 emigration centres. In 1893 no fewer 
 than 758 boys and 76 girls were sent 
 across the Atlantic to swell the army of 
 similar young colonists, of whom over 98 
 per cent, were doing credit to themselves 
 and their training and supervision, for 
 these newcomers are not simply placed 
 in situations immediately and left to shift 
 anyhow. Their work and whereabouts 
 are known for years, and they are visited 
 and corresponded with until they are of 
 an age to be left to their own guidance. 
 The girls go to Peterborough.in Ontario, 
 and are mostly placed out in service, for 
 which they have been carefully prepared ; 
 the younger boys go to Toronto ; the 
 elder are passed on direct to Russell in 
 
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 Manitoba to work on the Industrial Farm 
 of 10,000 acres until they become able, 
 under a special colonisation scheme, ar¬ 
 ranged with the Canadian Government, to 
 take up a settlement of their own. All 
 the emigrants do not go to Canada ; some 
 440 odd have journeyed to the Cape and 
 Australia, but these have either gone 
 individually or in small groups. Under 
 the operation of this scheme over 7,200 
 trained boys and girls have already left 
 the Homes for lives of new opportunity 
 over the seas. The Canadian scheme is 
 now worked with large parties number¬ 
 ing over a hundred at a time, and thus 
 no moral influence is lost by too early a 
 relaxation of the leading strings. 
 
 The secret, in fact, of this great success 
 is the continuance of tone until the char¬ 
 acter is fully formed. The religious teach¬ 
 ing throughout is on broad Protestant 
 lines, and the candidates and their 
 
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 friends, or guardians, when discoverable, 
 are told this while the inquiries are being 
 made. But occasionally these guardians 
 are content to mislead and keep their 
 religion in the background until it 
 pays them to declare it. Then it is 
 that we may hear of habeas corpus^ and 
 the vexatious legal proceedings arise, 
 which happily have cost the charity 
 nothing up to the present, inasmuch as 
 their expense has been borne by a fund 
 specially subscribed for the purpose 
 among a select few, which fund has 
 always had a balance on the right side. 
 
 And in fact every penny subscribed for 
 the Homes goes to the Homes and is 
 accounted for in detail, as are all the 
 amounts received from the industries and 
 other sources ; and every branch has its 
 separate account of income and expendi¬ 
 ture, the whole being audited by the first 
 firm of auditors in the world.* The daily 
 
 * Messrs. Turquand, Youngs & Co., of 41, Coleman 
 Street, London, E.C., have annually audited the ac¬ 
 counts of the Institutions for many years. 
 
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 expense of keeping all the branches 
 going is of course heavy: it is never 
 less than ^250, of which ^140 is required 
 for food. A large amount ; but consider 
 what is achieved with it ! 
 
 Average out the cost per head of the 
 recipients of this truly practical charity, 
 and compare it with what is met with in 
 so many quarters elsewhere. Send ^10 
 to Dr. Barnardo, and you will defray the 
 entire cost of emigrating a boy or girl, 
 and placing him or her in suitable em¬ 
 ployment in Ontario, including outfit, 
 rail fares, and ocean passage. Send him 
 £1^ loi-., and you defray the entire cost 
 of supporting a boy or girl boarded out 
 in some rural district. Send him ^16, and 
 you support a healthy child in his homes 
 for a year. In short, a child is fed, clothed, 
 lodged, and educated in Dr. Barnardo’s 
 Homes for less than tenpence three- 
 farthings a day. 
 
 {^Abridged, by permission, from an article in “ The 
 Sunday at Home'') 
 
 Butler & Tanner, Frome and London. 
 
TWO FORMS OF BEQUEST TO^ 
 
 “Dr. Barnardo’s Homes and Mission.” 
 
 (1) Where Money, Stocks, or Securities are 
 
 concerned. 
 
 I give and bequeath unto the Director or Treasurer for 
 the time being of the various Institutions in East London 
 and elsewhere known as “ Dr. Barnardo’s Homes and 
 Mission,” the Office of which is situated in Stepney Cause¬ 
 way, London, E., the sum of £ ^ j. t 4. 
 
 sterling, free of Legacy Duty. And I direct that the receipt 
 of the Director or Treasurer for the time being of the said In- 
 stitutions shall bo a sufficient discharge for the said legacy 
 which is to be applied to the general purposes of the said 
 Institutions. 
 
 (2) Where Lands or Houses are concerned. 
 
 I give unto the Director of the Institutions in East Lon¬ 
 don, and elsewhere, known as “ Dr. Bamardo’s Homes and 
 Mission,” the Office of which is situated in Stepney Cause¬ 
 way, London, E., all those lands, houses, and premises, 
 Imown as [here describe them by situation, boundaries, ex¬ 
 tent, and occupation, as nearly as possible,] to be sold or 
 held by him as he thinks proper, for the benefit of the 
 said Institutions. 
 
 [The Will or Codicil must be signed by the Testator, in the 
 presence of two Witnesses, who must be present at the same time, 
 and subscribe their names in his presence, and in the presence 
 of each other.] _ 
 
 The last Annual Report (for 1893), with details as to each 
 Branch, and audited Statements of Accounts, sent/^e by post 
 on receipt of addressed postal wrapper at the Head Offices, 18, 
 Stepney Causeway, London, E._ 
 
 
 Rubbles,’’ 
 
 A Penny Weekly Paper(Monthly 
 
 Parts, Sixpence). Illustrated 
 with Chromo-lithographs, 
 
 Edited by Dr. BARNARDO, 
 
 Is THE CHILDREN’S ORGAN OF THE HOMES. 
 
 Order of all Booksellers. 
 
 THE CHILDREN’S BOOKROOM, 279, STRAND, LONDON, W C. 
 
For those who may desire to assist in the 
 support and furtherance of the deeply im¬ 
 portant work among ORPHANS and HOMELESS 
 STREET CHILDREN, to which the foregoing 
 little booh refers, a few suggestions are here 
 added :— 
 
 £16 will support one healthy child for a whole year in any 
 • of our London Homes ; 
 
 ^ £8 will do the same for six months ; 
 
 £13 lOs. will cover the entire cost for one year of board¬ 
 ing out a waif in the Country. (We now board 
 out about 1,500 boys and girls in rural homes all 
 over England.) 
 
 £30 will maintain one bed in Her Majesty’s Hospital 
 FOR Waif Children for twelve months ; 
 
 £15 will keep a sick boy or girl in Her Majesty’s 
 . Hospital or at our Convalescent Seaside Homs 
 for six months ; 
 
 £10 will pay for the complete outfit and passage money of 
 one child Emigrated to either of our Branch Homes 
 in Ontario, Canada ; £Co will do the same for six 
 children ; 
 
 £12 will outfit and emigrate a trained youth to our In¬ 
 dustrial Farm in Manitoba; 
 
 £140 per day is required to feed the luhole of 07 tr large 
 faniily, numbering nearly 5,000 individuals, among 
 whom are many sick, crippled, blind, and deaf and dumb. 
 Two Forms of Bequest are given on page 3 of Cover. 
 
 Any Gift, however small, will be thankfully 
 received by The Treasurer, Wm. Fowler, Esq. ; 
 by The Chairman of Committee, Samuel G. 
 Sheppard, Esq. ,- by the Vice-Chairman, Howard 
 Williams, Esq. or by The Founder and Director, 
 Dr. Thos. J. Barnardo, 18 to 26, Stepney Cause¬ 
 way, London, E. 
 
 Post Office Orders should ho made payable only at 
 the G.P.O., and, as well as Cheques, should bo crossed 
 “London and South-Western Bank.” 
 
 Copies of this little book, for gratuitous distrib 7 ttion 07 tly, can be obtained 
 at -id. per dozen, fro^n the Offices of the Institutions, i8 to 26, Stepney Cause¬ 
 way, London, B.