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OPEN COUNCIL. 351
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¦ ««»~ To The Editors Of The English Wom...
occu the-p p lace ation , a b hum ut no of sense voices of in permanent distant ro occup oms , ation a passing or repose to and ; all fro the , a men sense and of
common women continental This common whom , sitting , character , sitting we -room met _-room , going about gave , equall it in one It y the ou with was t , impression or large the congregated passages and of hastl temporary together and staircases with in sojourners bare the , had floor large a .
with and bare a series — -if I of recollect cheap prints rightl after . y— from yellow . Raphael -washed , late published festival walls g b , y decorated Colnag y Deal , hi table , , however and with , ,
bri the arrange ght faded ness d roun and garlands d ch th e room i remaining ness , t and o the a scene blazing , some which considerable fire otherwise upon the it , wide might of hearth have lacked gave s were and a .
room vary g It irls was , merry poorl the _tyvilig centre y and ht clad when comfortable of , and the we wan group entered , and were being meagre , and chatting a French a looking and lad , working but y , who apparentl group has in the the y centre for women oversi the g of ht time the of
the inmates , and who seemingly "was very popular with every one . cleanl Having airy left , and this furnished apartment with we visited the simp the lest sleep needful ing wards lenishing , which ; and are
prayers lastly y ~ , we ni visited ght , and the morning small . chap show There el , are where also the private inmates sitting are -room expected p s for to familie attend s ,
but these our friend did not us . From the thirteenth annual public report 1858 of " The House admitted of Charit and y , "
three given hundred us by the and matron sixty , -four we find women that ; in that of fifty the three men were hundred and sixty , - four womentwo hundred and twenty-four were servants , fourteen nurses ,
Hive makers matrons or , seams , six tresses laundry , - f maids our sc , h th ool mist h resses servants ousek , three p l aborers , twent saleswomen y h -five l , dress three t -
tradeswomenone actress . The men were , , scoomasers , inmates thirty one shopmen j ournalist -three received or clerk children , , one s , in f tradesmen a 1858 were rmer , relieved we one , find eng bailiff i . neers forty , Out one , porter of were ex the -ensi s sent , four one gn . to hundred _soldiei Besides hosp _% itals one and these , policeman forty fifty adults - - two two , ,
sent homeand thirteen were , emigrants , while two hundred and eighty-eight because of anything were their provided their being , accord time with found had situations for exp them ired . to , and Of do ; the there iive remainder were was dismised no reasonable _^ thirty , and -three seventeen expectation went left out of
founded The general own in 1846 objects are . well and princi lained ples in of the " The following House of ori Charity ginal laws , " which . was exp
'' 1 . It affords , temporary relief to deserving persons specially recommended ( _1 ) In either do or -patien full selec without work ted ts , di e , , g s wanting > ch — assistance arged food from , hosp quiet itals , and and rest out , and -patients unable unable to obtain to
( 2 ) Persons taken into dependent hospital on those . who , by accident or disease , have been
( 3 ) Persons workas suddenl in the y case , and . of by fire no or fault the bankruptcy of their own oi , death thrown of an out em of
-. ( 4 ) Persons ployer , . who come not to successful London , in in sear their ch object of friends , or of
employ-( 5 ) Persons ment , , and especiall are y females , whose cannot health requires afford . the a loss short of respite
from laborious work , though they wages ( 6 } Persons it would having involve the * no . friends to in London , and waiting either for the
( 7 ) Persons means ceived or for on whom probation oppor an tunity asy , before lum emigrate is which desired they . receive , in have which further lost they ' misconduct can assistance he retowards recovering a position they by
Open Council. 351
OPEN COUNCIL . 351
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/63/
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