Transcribed from the [1869] edition , email
By JAMESGREENWOOD,
The “Amateur Casual.”
LONDON:
STANLEY RIVERS AND CO.
I. Neglected Children. | |
CHAPTER I. | |
The Pauper Population.—PauperChildren.—Opinions concerning their properTreatment.—A Hundred Thousand Children loose in LondonStreets.—Neglected Babies.—Juvenile “MarketProwlers” | page 1 |
CHAPTER II. | |
Who are the Mothers?—The InfantLabour-Market.—Watch London and BlackfriarsBridges.—The Melancholy Types.—The Flashy, Flaunting“Infant.”—KeepingCompany.—Marriage.—The Upshot | p. 13 |
CHAPTER III. | |
“Baby-Farmers” and Advertising“Child-Adopters.”—“F. X.” ofStepney.—The Author’s Interview with FarmerOxleek.—The Case of Baby Frederick Wood | p. 29 |
CHAPTER IV. | |
The London Errand-Boy.—His Drudgery andPrivations.—His Temptations.—The London Boy afterDark.—The Amusements provided for him | p. 58 |
Curious Problem.—The best Method ofTreatment.—The “Child of the Gutter” not to beentirely abolished.—The genuine Alley-bred Arab.—ThePoor Lambs of the Ragged Flock.—The Tree of Evil in ourmidst.—The Breeding Places of Disease and Vice | p. 76 |
II. Professional Thieves. | |
CHAPTER VI. |