Bertha Steel is ‘thin and delicate’, Mary Carrington is ‘stout and well’.
Levinia Pate is ‘clean and well-kept’ in March, ‘healthy and clean’ in April, but ‘dead’ early in May.
Lucky Bertha Steel. By May she has ‘improved in every way’.
The Visiting Inspector’s Report Book Licensed Foster Mothers Vol 1 1881-1883, GRG 27/19, State Records of South Australia