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An English Boarding School

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
May
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

An action was reoently brought for daniagos by i pupil teacher at iïoldsworthy, North Devon, Englaud, against the keeper of the school aud his wife. The plaintiff, haring been engoged has a pupil teacher, fouud that, besides twenty girls, there wc re thirty boys ia the sohool. All the boys slcpt iu ono rootn, the oapacity of whioli was iot enough for iive. Th o plaintiff had to make the beds in tho boys' dormitory, which was the only plaoo thcy had for vashinpr, and, as ther v.nv but four hasinSj Kiui of tliom of ten went down dirty. Th'! sheets wero only chnnged twice in onohalf ycar, and wlieu the measJesor other illnefiB occurred Holloway's pills were the only medicine administerod, no doctor being called in. Tlic plamtiff had to sleep in the same bed with four others, and wlien un infectious disenso broke out thoy all caught it and the iLiintilï, wlien she left, wasdiRquiilüicd froni taking another sitnationforesveral months, Several pupil oamed tho iofoolion to thcir homos. Although the hon hold coiisisted of seventy persons only oae femalo servant was kipt, pad Bon-ic.tiincs there was no servnnt at all. Tho jnry ;ivardd t!m plaintiff S100 damagCR.

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Michigan Argus