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**“Poonamallee Boy at Nurse”, probably very young boys previously under the care of the Poonamallee Asylum

**“Boy for whom employment in the Public Service was solicited “ -perhaps boys readmitted after a failed apprenticeship.

* There was a printing press at the Asylum from 1800 [http://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&pg=PA77 Limited View Google Books] page 77, ''Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India'' by Stuart Blackburn (2005)

* The Madras Veterinary Establishment was set up in 1810 and boys from the Military Male Asylum and the Charity School were to be trained in the veterinary art, with the eventual rank of farriers. [http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA159 Google Books]

*In 1903, the [[South Indian Railway]] requiring for its new terminus at Egmore, the buildings occupied by the Civil Orphan Asylums, Goverment suggested that the Civil Orphan Asylums move to the premises of the Military Female Orphan Asylum in Poonamallee Road, and that the girls from the latter Asylum move to the Lawrence Asylum at Lovedale. The transfer took place in October 1904. [http://books.google.com/books?id=luXS-8vTrJQC&pg=PA263 Limited View Google Books] page 263,'' The Nilgiris Volume 1 of Madras District Gazetteers'' by W Francis 1994 reprint of an earlier book, probably 1908.

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