| Description | Contains a typescript history of the Middlemore Homes, dated 23 May 1942; an analysis of expenditure in the 1952 audited accounts of the Middlemore Emigration Homes including details of wage increases, details of the average cost of maintaining a child for the years 1948-1953 and costs for maintenance, labour, administration, repairs, rates and taxes, travelling and emigration and garden supplies; an typed agenda for a special general meeting of the Middlemore Emigration Homes to be held on 1st March 1955 with an attached printed copy of the laws and constitution of the Middlemore Homes (as amended on 3rd June 1937). The special meeting was held in order to change the laws and constitution of the organisation, to allow the homes to care for children and their families in England as an alternative to emigration. |