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ment, and tkis was a stepping stone to its finally becoming 

 an independent institution. 



Those whose hearts went out to work among the children 

 applied for and obtained from the Legislature an Act of In- 

 corporation as tlie board of management to the Children's 

 Home, June, 1897. 



After the Children's Home had been removed from under 

 its care, and the Maternity Hosj^ital had become an adjunct 

 of the General Hospital, the C. W. U. had a breatliing space. 

 There was one phase of work open to them akin to their for- 

 mer hospital work and springing out of it, but it was feared 

 that this would not carry with it public sympathy. They 

 hesitated, but there was money in the treasury, over $1,000, 

 and they felt that they should without delay put it to some 

 useful purpose. 



That the corporation was so wealthy came about as fol- 

 lows : From the opening of the Maternity Hospital there had 

 been admitted from time to time patients fro.n the immigrant 

 sheds. The General Hospital authorities, it was understood, 

 were paid at the rate of 60c. a day for each immigrant patient 

 placed luider their care and the board of thu Maternity Hos- 

 pital concluded that they should be paid at the same rate for 

 each immigrant woman sent to them, and the bills were 

 made out accordingly. Year after year these accounts 

 were disputed by the Dominion Government, but finally the 

 sum amounting to $900, was paid, just when the society 

 seemed to require it least. 



It was not long before the C. W. U. became convinced 

 that it Avas their duty to open up a refuge for worsen. The 

 Maternity Hospital had served the double purpose of an hos- 

 pital and a refuge and now the members of the union felt 

 that an industrial home was needed for the ^ind of inmates 

 that were likely to come under their care. But the incon- 

 veniences of a rented house for the purposes of the honije de- 

 termined the union to build, so as to have room for industrial 



