Excerpt from Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant and Delinquent Children: Held at Richmond. Va., May 4 to 6, 1908 Asylum; in 1846, the Roman Catholic Institution of Mercy in 1850, the Five Points House of Industry, -all in New York. In 1844, about twenty years after the introduction of the County House, the opinion crystallized that almshouse Shelter for children was worse than a failure. Miss Dorothy L. Dix reported concerning her visitation of the almshouses in New York: They do not guard against the indiscriminate association Of children with adult poor. The education of these children, with rare exceptions, is conducted on a very defective plan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.