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Good Service Work in a London Slum

Image credit: The Scouts Heritage Service

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This painting depicts Scouts assisting a poor family in the East End led by Patrol Leader Albert Emins. The mother has been making up paper flowers for the Scouts to sell on the streets and they would return the money to her so she can look after her children. The child in the chair is quite sick and in this period only half of all children survived until their fifth birthday. Scouts undertook charitable works in their community to relieve poverty before the advent of the Welfare State.

The Scouts Heritage Service

London

Title

Good Service Work in a London Slum

Date

1913

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 124 x W 173 cm

Accession number

TSA/2002

Acquisition method

purchased, 1995

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Ernest S. Carlos, 1913

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