Found in the street

An image of a child admitted to a night refuge, from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré,1872. Jerrold describes the scene: ' We are in the receiving room of a night refuge... A worn-out, prostrate Arab - a baby in years - has been dragged in from the wintry streets. His face is livid yellow; his lips are black; and when they uncover him, we see how hard the world has been to the little heart. His infant fellow-sufferers look on, while he lies upon an old man's knees, and one of the officials (the outer world does not know how gentle and compassionate these poorly paid servants of the poor are, as a rule) pours out a restorative. Another officer gently puts his hands upon the backs of the boys, and leads them from the invalid. Such scenes, upon which my eyes have been led to fall so often - I hope not uselessly - lift the heart almost to the throat'.