THE INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator hae always shown so notable a sympathy with all wise and humane efforts for the diminution of suffer- ing that we venture to ask you to allow us to draw the atten- tion of your readers to the work of a society Which in a quiet and unostentatious way has for some twelve years past done much to mitigate the troubles of those most helpless of sufferers,—invalid and crippled children.
The " Invalid Children's Aid Association," by means of an orlised body of visitors, aided by a committee of experts in vat.' 'us kinds of charitable work, and in frequent co-operation witn the Charity Organisation Society, endeavours to obtain for the invalid and crippled children of the London poor the best and most effective help towards a restoration to health and usefulness, or, if this is not possible, the mitigation of their sufferings. It needs no great imagination to conceive how large is the need for this kind of work. Every one familiar with the London poor must know how greatly the trials of poverty are aggravated by sickness, and how little able the poor are to provide for the needs of a crippled or invalid child. Yet timely treatment, efficient nursing, or the long-continued influence of country air and good food may make to such children all the difference between a happy recovery and hopeless invalidism. It is this timely help which the Invalid Children's Aid Association tries to give, but unhappily its efforts are greatly crippled by want of funds; and now, in the face of a debt to the bankers, it does not dare, as it would wish, to extend its work.
To any one interested the fullest information will be gladly furnished by our secretary, Mrs. Munro, at the office of the Association, 8 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, by whom also subscriptions or donations will be gratefully received.—
We are, Sir, &c., ABERDEEN, President.
C. W. FREMANTLE, Hon. Treasurer.
[The work is so good a one that it has induced us to break our rule, imposed by the limits of space, against inserting charit- able appeals.—ED. Spectator.]
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