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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| HOUSE OF REFUGE AND SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY (Boys) [Aberdeen] | House of Refuge etc School of Industry (Boys) House of Refuge etc School of Industry (Boys) House of Refuge etc School of Industry (Boys) |
Name on door of house Annual Reports & Accounts &c Mr Reid Superintendent |
075 | This building was erected in 1861 from the funds of the Intitution. In 1837 the first house of this discription was established in Aberdeen in the Guest-row and on that occasion Dr. [Doctor] George Watt gave the liberal donation of a Thousand Guineas towards the establishment of this laudable Institution and in 1839 he executed a deed of Mortmain. Conveying his whole property of Old Mill (where now Stands the Old Mill Reformatory) in trust for the maintenance of this Institution. This with other liberal Contributions augmented the funds, and a house for boys was established in Sugarhouse Lane and Continued here till this present house was in readiness at which time the inmates were removed to the present building The object of the Institution is, emphatically a Hous of Refuge, to all of every class, who need its shelter and obey its dicipline, and for the relief and instruction of those Young persons, who, from the Carelessness or loss of parents. or guardians. are left to wander without a guide and without a home, exposed to every temptation and too often to the Commission of Crime. It is not, however to be understood that this Establishment is intended for the relief of those who are entitled to Parochial Support, nor to Supersede the Charity which individuals may wish to bestow on those destitute persons. with whose circumstances and character the are personally acquainted. Still less is it intended as a Substitute for Any Kind of honest industry. by which the poor may maintain their own independence --- It is a temporary shelter for the destitute -- not intended as a permanent residence for any, but a spot wherein the wretched may rest, for a limited period, in that fearful crisis of human destiny, when hopless poverty, unsupported by moral principal, first begins to whisper the possibility of successful Crime Continued |
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