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THE LADIES' SANITAKY ASSOCIATION. 83
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results from tlieir ignorance of the laws of health , they have combined to propagate this important branch of knowledge in . various
• ways . They desire to establish institutions in which schoolmistresses and pupil-teachers , belonging to any schools for the
workingclasses , can attend gratuitously a course of theoretical and practical instruction in all subjects relating to health , so that they
may irls be the able future to wive teach s and their mothers pupils . of B the y working these means -classes school , will
obtain g , information which , though necessary to all , is now possessed by very few . Classes should also be formed for educated
¦ women . Special attention will be paid to instruction in the important management duties of infants of woman and . children The formation , as being of a one training of the home most
for on a orphan small infants scale is in at contemp Brihton lation . Our , na readers y , has been will alread see that y begun this g
part of very the plan ought to be carried out locally in every district , and that it rests with themselves to appropriate and carry out the
idea of a hygienic school . If nursery-maids could be got to attend any classes formed in different towns , so much the better ; and an
appeal is made to all clergymen and doctors to use their immense influence in founding and supporting * branch associations . The
publication of tracts has already been begun , the titles of several of ¦ whi ch will be found in our advertising columns . The
establishment of loan libraries , and the delivery of popular lectures on the preservation communications of health , be are addressed also desired to . the Finall Secretary y , all inquiries at 16 a , Old or
Cavendish Street may , Cavendish Square , London ; or 17 , , Egremont Place , Brighton .
The association of which we have thus sketched the plan was inaugurated in October , 1857 ; one report has been published , up to last Junewhich is of course of the most preliminary character ,
but from which , we learn that " subscriptions , expressions of cordial ladies the approbation leading and gentlemen members , and promises of in the of medical aid parts , have profession of the been king received , from dom clergymen and from even some from , and of
one in Australia . " We many must add our individual testimony , to the great interest excited by the idea of such an association , to the
constant inquiries about it at the office of the " English "Woman ' s in Journal to the , " support and to the of substantial each part of aid the which plan we as are it comes convinced into will play flow .
enabled During throug February h the , March kindness , and of June a medical of 1858 gentleman , the committee to provide were
two courses , of eight . free popular lectures to ladies on , " Physical Education and the Laws of Health . " Several papers upon sanitary
to subj some ects have of the been leading also contr periodicals ibuted . by It members is in supporting of the committee by its
moral influence , all such local activity in every town throughout , the
country , that this association will chiefly do its work . We do not
The Ladies' Sanitaky Association. 83
THE LADIES' SANITAKY ASSOCIATION . 83
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/11/
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