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HOSPITAL FOR ORPHAN AND DESTITUTE FEMALE CHILDREN [Aberdeen] Hospital for Orphans and Destitute. (Girls)
Hospital for Orphans and Destitute Female Children
Hospital for Orphan and Destitute Female Children
Duncan Davidson Esqr. Advocate (Secretary)
Rules & Regulations of the Hospital
P.O. [Post Office] Directory 1860-61
075 This institution was incorporated by Act of Parliament, 28th July 1849 - And receives accession from the bequests of Dr. [Doctor] Carnigie. Miss McKenzie. and Gordon's (of Murtle) fund, besides donations and subscriptions from other Charitable and benevolent individials. and the number admitted depends upon the state of the funds. No girls shall be admissible until after completing their Sixth year, nor after completing their tenth year, and they must be in good health, free of all infectious complaints, and of sound constitution, at the time of their admission. Previous to election, the Trustees shall be Satisfied, by Certificates or otherwise, of the eligibility of the applicants, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and the approved regulations. The children eligible for election into the Hospital are friendless and destitute Orphan girls, who shall have been born in, or shall belong to, or shall be the children or grandchildren of, parents who were born in, or did belong to, the City or County of Aberdeen, or such others as shall be deemed suitable. No girl shall be dismissed before she has completed her fourteenth year, nor continued beyond her sixteenth year, The children shall be maintained, clothed, and educated, during the time they are in the Hospital; and properly instructed in all Kinds of female housework. Knitting dressmaking. and other needlework. besides the rudiments of the English Language. Writing and Arithmetic, so that they may be qualified for earning their livelihood as domestic servants, or by any other industrious and respectable employment. The Matron shall endeavour to procure for the Girls, previous to their leaving the Hospital, engagements as house Servants in respectable families, or to procure for them any other suitable means of earning their livelihood. Every Girl, on leaving the Hospital as above, shall presented with a Bible, a chest. and clothes fit for a servant. The Matron. Teacher. Servants. and children must attend the established Church -- The officers are a Secretary. a Treasurer. a Physician. a Teacher a Matron. a Porter etc. --

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