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192 POUETH REPORT OF THE
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The Committee Wish To Remark That, Throu...
give cause for inucli gratitude for the past , and strong hope for the future .
The receipts have been equal to the _averag-e , and forty-one new members have been enrolled , making a total of two hundred and
six now on the list . The Committee have continued to devote their chief attention
merely to the diffusion of sanitary knowledge , for further experience _^ has only confirmed their former beliefthat they can thus effect
, more "widely extended good , than by attempting * actual sanitary work while their funds are too small to carry it on satisfactorily . They
are very glad to state that in the Branch Associations and in many other instances this diffusion of knowledge has led to very
satisfactory practical results . following The publication 1 have been of issued sanitary : — tracts has been continued . The
10 , 000 " Cheap Doctor . " 5 , 000 " Power of Soap and Water . "
8 , 000 " Sick Child's Cry . " 8 , 000 " Work and Play . " 8000 " _STever Despair . "
, 5 , 000 " Pure Water . " 5 , 000 " Wholesome Drink . " . 5 , 000 " Health of Mothers . "
4 , 000 " Healthy Dwellings . " 2 , 000 " Worth of Fresh Air . " 2 , 000 " Warm Clothing . "
In all , sixty-two thousand , making a total of one hundred and _thirty-eig-ht thousand five hundred tracts issued by the Association
since its commencement . These tracts have been widely circulated throughout the country . A large number have been gratuitously
the distributed ordinary by reli the giou Association s tracts by . clergymen Others have , district been circulated visitors , Bible with
womenand other laborers among the poor . Through the kindness , of Mrs . William Baines , a large number of them are now beingr
circulated among the inmates of the Endell Street Hospital . In all cases within the knowledge of the Committee the distribution has
been attended with satisfactory results . As an instance of the approval of experienced sanitarians it is very gratifying to remark
that the Committee of the Manchester aiid Salford Sanitary Associationwho have for some years been engaged in the issue of
santary tracts , , have lately discontinued that part of their work , because they prefer to circulate the publications of this Association .
Through the recent visit of one of the Committee to Leipzig , the tracts have been brought under the notice of Dr . Schrieber , an
eminent sanitarian in that city , who has consequently issued a large number of similar publications , and has induced some of tlie > :
Ministers of Education in the German States to aid him in circulating them . The Committee are very far from satisfied with tho
extent of their tract distribution . ' Their aim is ? at least , to , secure
192 Poueth Report Of The
192 POUETH REPORT OF THE
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/48/
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