This is not directly concerned particularly with birmingham . but was " A Paper read by Rev. Benjamin Waugh at the Meeting of the Baptist Union, Thursday, October 10, 1889, at Birmingham" and was later issued as a pamphlet by the NSPCC. It was just become available online through Gutenburg at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31888/31888-h/31888-h.htm . I would say that it is rather upsetting in parts, but you do seem to still read of this sort of thing in the papers even today.
Mike
Mike