North-Western Provinces and Oudh [Editor]: Resolution on the administration of famine relief in the North-Western provinces and Oudh during 1896 and 1897 (Allahabad, 1897)

( SI )

The number of children now remaining in the district
orphanages is 1,668. No doubt most of these are true orphans,
hut some have probably been merely deserted by their
parents. Efforts have been, and are still being, made to
trace out their parents or friends. These efforts have in
some cases been rewarded with success, and the children have
been restored to their homes. In other cases there has not
been success. If further efforts are unsuccessful, and if it is
found impossible to induce respectable people of the same caste
and religion, over whom the Local Government can exercise
supervision, to adopt the children, they will be placed in
orphanages controlled by the Bishops of the various Christian
communities or in respectable orphanages controlled by
substantial native Societies and Committees. It is understood
that the Provincial Branch of the Indian Charitable Relief
Eund intends to endow the various orphanages for the
maintenance and education of these children. In any case
this Government intends to exercise a control and supervision
over the orphanages, in the interests of the children, until they
attain an age when they may be trusted to take care of
themselves.

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