Today's Magdalen girl is Bertha Whitehead (Kleine), a 16-year-old sentenced to the asylum today in 1902 because she was found living in a lodging-house. (?!) It isn't clear to me whether these houses served as brothels, or if this was considered "idle and dissolute" living. pic.twitter.com/YlEOauvsLX
— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) August 18, 2022