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LADIES 7 SANITARY ASSOCIATION* 195
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The Committee Wish To Remark That, Throu...
and conversazioni held for the discussion of the means of effecting * sanitary improvements among * the poor in AndoverBradford
, , Brighton , Brompton , Chertsey , Darlington , Highbury , Maidenhead , Middlesbo . ro ' , Oxford , Heading , Stainton , Watlington , and Wilton .
Some of these _meeting-s were attended by district visitors and other ladies working * among * the poor , others hy the poor themselves .
Mrs . Fison afterwards visited London , and delivered sanitary addresses in Surrey Chapel , Blackfriars , to the ladies of the Rev .
Newman Hall's congregation ; in Paternoster Row , to the colporteurs employed by the _ISTew Colportage Association ; in Exeter Hall ,
to the Ragged School Teachers ; at Mr . Samuel Gurney ' s , to the London City Missionariesand in St . Jude ' sWhitechapelto a
, , , meeting of district visitors . In Reading , Mrs . Fison has organized a Branch Association with _every prospect of success .
Addresses have been delivered at various mothers' meetings by other ladies connected with the Association .
The Committee have very great pleasure in announcing that the Association has been recently affiliated with the National
Association for the Promotion of Social Science . At the Glasgow Congress Dr . Edwin Lankester , the Secretary of the Sanitary Section , kindly
acted as the Association ' s delegate , and a paper on its work by onp of its officers was read , and afterwards published in the volume
of " Transactions . " The Aberdeen Branch Association has made considerable progress .
Subjoined are a few extracts from its reports : — " The number of members is one hundred and sixty . "
" The following lectures have been delivered : —¦ H I . — — On Sani Fever tary and Reform Fever . Poisons By Alexander Bthe Thomson RevDr , Esq J 0 . Brown
III . . — On the Influence of the Mind . on y the Health . of . . the . Body . . J _$ y the Rev . A . Mtiiiro .
" This gentleman has also delivered a course of ten evening lectures to the young people attending the Crooked Lane factory
Evening School , and a series of lectures in the neighboring towns and villages . "
" Five thousand four hundred copies of various sanitary tracts and pamphlets have been circulated . "
" A tea meeting has been held , to which all the Bible-women ' loyed in Aberdeen were invitedwith the view of securing their
co emp -operation . Much valuable information , was elicited from them , and it is believed they were much stimulated in the sanitary part
of their work . A set of the parent Association ' s tracts was given to each * Bible-woman / to be lent among the poor in her . district . ivento be lent in
A whitewashing brush -was also g , to each one , All those promised parts of their the town heart where y co-op infectious eration . ' disease has been prevalent .
The Brighton and Sussex branch has also made much progress . _Sxibjoined are extracts from its Report and _other papers : — p 2
Ladies 7 Sanitary Association* 195
LADIES 7 SANITARY ASSOCIATION * 195
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/51/
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