MeMoMu_MM_ 045 LIVERPOOL / KÜRBLA SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
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Portrait of a mother and two children posing for a photograph in the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, circa 1900. The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Britain was founded in Liverpool nearly 140 years ago.Despite being a thriving port and industrial city, late 19th century Liverpool had the highest infant mortality rate in the country. Many residents were near starvation and and the city had the largest workhouses and industrial schools in Britain.
Children worked in factories, and kids from poor families sometimes had to beg, rag-collect, pick-pocket, and steal from the docks just to survive. In a letter to the Liverpool Mercury in 1881, the Reverend George Staite wrote: “Whilst we have a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, can we not do something to prevent cruelty to children?” That year, Liverpool businessman Thomas Agnew was visiting New York where he came across the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. His encounter there and with other charities in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia inspired him to create something similar in the UK.
On his return, he and local Liverpool leaders, including the Liberal MP Samuel Smith, met at Liverpool Town Hall and founded the country’s first organisation aimed solely at protecting children on April 19, 1883. The living in overcrowded slums, (LSPCC) set about helping vulnerable kids in the city. Src: Liverpool record office and libraries. #Victorianchaps #liverpool #poverty #vintage #victorian Kuva vähem
— kohas nimega Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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