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[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]
The fourth report for this society, for the year ending 31 January 1906, is the earliest available for research in the Manx National Heritage Library.
Under the presidency of the Attorney General George Ring and the patronage of the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Raglan and Lady Raglan, and Bishop Straton and Mrs. Straton, the society worked 'to mitigate the sufferings of children'. Almost a third of the cases, 22 out of 62, came from the Douglas area, the town which had experienced phenomenal development and unfamiliar urbanisation in its progress to becoming one of the major holiday resorts of the British Isles; the rest spread throughout the Island, with a subsidiary peak of 9 cases at Ramsey. The society worked on cases reported by the general public, school attendance officers and sanitary inspectors, and those discovered by its own Inspector and were proceeding with a Children's centre financed by a grant of £1,000 from the Henry Bloom Noble Trustees.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, founded in 1888, was in touch with the Manx society and presumably a guiding influence in its structure anddevelopment.
M.N.H.L.. Isle of Man newspapers; Annual Reports, 1906 onwards. Minute book, 1902 -31.
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