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196 FOURTH REPORT OF THE
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The Committee Wish To Remark That, Throu...
" The Association lias now eighty-one members . The balancesheet shows a very satisfactory state of the funds . "
" The Association has aimed at a practical realization of the objects of the parent Society .
" First by the dissemination of sanitary literature through every available channel . Grants of tracts have been made to some of the
clergy and ministers of Brighton for their district visitors , to town and female missionaries , to the Maternal Society , the Lying-in
Institution , and the Servants' Home . In all , three thousand seven hundred copies of the parent Association ' s tracts and other publications
have been circulated . Some of these tracts have been greatly appreciated by the poor . In many cottages a desire has thus been excited
to eases know mor s e have of the been requisites found anxiousl for a health y seeking y home to ; ensure and in them some . '
" Secondl person y , by the delivery of lectures . The following three have been delivered in the Town Hall : —
I . On the JBlessing of Clean Homes . By Douglas Fox , Esq . II III . On On the the Vital Shin Functions and its Functions . By W . with E . C . es _JSTourse pecial reference , Esq . to the Turkish
Baths . . By R . Hugh . es , Esq . _, " Thirdlythe Society has carried out its practical work by the
employment , of sanitary female missionaries . They have been instructed to read sanitary tracts in cottages , and to draw the
attention of the inmates to the preventable causes of disease and death ; cleanliness as the practical a _} yplication of the three great
sanitary agents , —Water , Air , and Light , —being earnestly inculcated . The missionaries have been supplied with brooms and
brushes to lend to the poor , and have been empowered to have rooms whitewashed wherever they think it necessary . Also , to
employ a woman to clean houses where there is sickness , and the occupants are unable to do this work themselves . The missionaries
regularly present detailed reports , which are highly interesting , and show the imperative necessity for the co-operation of all classes in
Brighton for the diffusion of information on the great laws of life and health . Many of the evils that exist in the homes of the
working classes are such as arise from causes over which they have no control , and in many instances owe their origin to the ignorance
of landlords and owners of property . " Fourthlycottage sanitary meetings have been held in some of
the worst localities , . At these meetings , the poor have been encouraged to give information on the sanitary evils from which they
suffer , with a view to their remedy . Attention also has been directed to those evils which arise from their own personal habits .
Addresses have been given , or tracts read , and minutes taken of the information received .
the ¦ " Many beginning facts mi of g the ht be sanitary mentioned work to carried show that out , small in this as has manner been ,
some important results have been obtained .
196 Fourth Report Of The
196 FOURTH REPORT OF THE
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/52/
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