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(2) There must be far more sub-division.
If this sub-division cannot be carried out
by Boarding-out, it must be by "Home"
- Schools or Cottage Schools of certainly not more than
30 children. (mixed ages.)
[You may say of all this poor little
Infantry that they are ill -
And certainly the danger & difficulty
increases as the square of the number.]
(3). The Child Infant Inmates of each "Home" Schl. should be
certainly mixed with older girls.
Providence has arragned that each child of each age should
have a mother to itself: (for no woman has
28 children between the ages say of 5 and 6:)
and if unfortunately the Mother is absent
from death or wickedness, the best thing we
can do is to imintate Providence's arrangement
as nearly as we can.
[Experience, e.g. teaches me every year
more & more that sick children are much
better scattered about in Adult Sick Wards: