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ladies' sanitary association. 197
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The Committee Wish To Remark That, Throu...
" The Committee are endeavoring to establish baths and washhouses , and have already received special subscriptions for that
purpose . " A lending library of sanitary works is now in course of
formation at the office . " "A special fund has been opened to provide poor children with
skipping _' -ropes , balls , and other toys , which induce healthy outdoor exercise . "
The Oxford branch is now fully organized , and is gradually enlarging its sphere of operation . A meeting of the working
members is held monthly , to receive reports of the sanitary condition of their respective districts , and to discuss remedial measures .
Pails , brushes , and whitewash are supplied to the poor . A course of popular sanitary lectures has been arranged for delivery in the
Town Hall and various parochial schoolrooms . Dr . Henry Acland and other eminent sanitarians have arranged to take part in this
course . In presenting these encouraging reports from their Auxiliaries ,
the Committee beg to state , that there are several important openings for the establishment of others , whenever the Association's
funds are sufficient to give the requisite preliminary aid . For thisas well as the other parts of their workthe Committee very
earnestl , y ask further support . The Association , ' s funds have hitherto been utterly insufficient to place it in the position which
it must occupy before its work can be satisfactorily carried on . A thousand institutions for the cure of disease are supported
among us on a scale which has made English munificence proverbial . One Association for the far nobler work of
prevention is now instituted . "Whether that one shall receive support commensurate to the importance of its objects , or
not , is a question which the Committee respectfully offer . If the Association ' s funds be compared with the needed work , they
seem indeed infinitesimal . The want of sanitary knowledge is not a _foierellocalbut a national one . Where the Association
has distributed y one , tract , thousands are needed ; where it has delivered one lecturea hundred audiences wait for instruction . So
it is with all other parts , of the work ; all need to be indefinitely extended . But the balance-sheet will show that extension is not
possible without an increase of funds . Believing , however , that the work is in accordance with the will of Godand that its aim is
, to promote obedience to His laws , the Committee trust that , with His blessingit will prosperand that many more who have at
heart the health , and happiness , of their fellow creatures will come forward to assist .
Signed on behalf of the Committee , S GEORGINA . E . SUTHERLAN COWPEK D \ , > Se Honorary cretaries ,.
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Ladies' Sanitary Association. 197
_ladies' sanitary association . 197
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/53/
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