| Description | Bound volume containing annual reports as follows:
- 'Children's Emigration Homes. Nineteenth report (for the year 1891) with list of subscribers.', 1892
- 'Children's Emigration Homes. Twentieth report (for the year 1892) with list of subscribers.', 1893
- 'Children's Emigration Homes. Twenty-first report (for the year 1893) with list of subscribers.', 1894
- 'Children's Emigration Homes. Twenty-second report (for the year 1894) with list of subscribers.', 1895
- 'Children's Emigration Homes. Twenty-third report (for the year 1895) with list of subscribers.', 1896
- 'Children's Emigration Homes. Twenty-fourth report (for the year 1896) with list of subscribers.', 1897
The volume includes illustrations showing the Children's Emigration Homes on St. Luke's Road, Birmingham and the Guthrie Home, London, Ontario [Canada]. The twenty-fourth annual report includes portraits of three children who have been sent by the homes to Canada 'George S.', 'Mary S.' and 'Harriet S.' The 24th annual report for 1896 includes statistics detailing the reasons for children being admitted to the homes and the sources from which children were received in 1896. Sources listed include the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, school board officers, ministers of religion, private recommendations, police, workhouses, personal enquiries and industrial schools. |