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82 THE LADIES * SANITARY ASSOCIATION.
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_Tbad meat . Tlie infected clothes must _Tbe burnt or washed after an daug epidemic hter . may The have famil wished y vault to must be laid be st by ernl her y closed mother , thoug and h the the
husband To descend by his yet wife more . to particulars , the best _framed Acts of
Parliament most efficiently carried out , will only result in partial reforms , until the habits of the people , engendered amidst bad
conditions , and rendered careless by hopelessness , be also changed . When the house-wife has got a good supply of water , we must by
it hook is good or by to crook wash infuse the house into her and unaccustome to give refractory d intellect pinafores the notion a chance that
of being clean . The baby must no longer be fed upon cold sausage , and Tommy with an intermittent fever must not be laid in
a four-poster with shut windows and a roaring fire . It is not good to whiAlexander McStinger till he is red hot with screaming , and
then " p set him on the stones to cool . " A broken pane of glass is more likelto ive the rheumatism than no window at all , and the
dunghill b y y the g cottage door will probably poison the household before the more distant parish officer has smelt it out . In fact we
want just that minute domestic instruction in matters sanitary for which Boards of Health may pave the way , but which they can
never complete in detail . "We want the action of women in every parishwe want the clergyman's wife and the doctor ' s daughter to
know the ; laws of healthand to enforce them in the perpetual intercourse which we hop , e and believe they maintain with their
poorer neighbours . The squire ' s lady , and the peeress whose husband owns half the county , the district visitor who cares for
the soul , and the parish nurse who attends upon the sick—if all with these a women will" as could the " Household be made to Words work " with observes a will , , 6 < and is a fine " a woman thing , "
what a difference , might be wrought in the average mortality of Eng Many land . of our readers may be already aware that ' an association ,
yet in its infancy , has been formed for supplying this very want ; for inducing ladies all over the country to take a lively interest in
the sanitary laws reform of health , and and for supp the ly management ing them with of domestic the household tracts , to upon be
distributed wherever the cottager or the artizan can be induced to read themVarious other plans for the diffusion of sanitary
. knowledge will gradually be worked into the scheme , and we shall take a few extracts from the published prospectus of the association
for the sake of making these as widely known as possible . The ladieswhose names will be found in another part of our Journal ,
truly consider , that by far the greater part of the debility , disease , and ature mortalityis the result of _preventive causes , but that
very prem few preventive measures , bearing on the personal habits of the
p eop the le low have ph yet ysical been condition adopted . of so Believing large a portion that the of princi our population pal cause
82 The Ladies * Sanitary Association.
82 THE _LADIES * SANITARY ASSOCIATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/10/
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