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    208 OPEN COUNCIL.

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    XXXIIL—OPEN COUNCIL.

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    To the Editors of the English Woman?s Jo...

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    To the Editors of the English Woman's Jo...

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    Sanitary Tracts. Four New Tracts Have Be...

    _oftiie Working-classes , " delivered at the South Kensington Museum by Mr . Henry RobertsFellow of the Royal Institute of British

    Architects , the other a pamp , hlet entitled _the" Health of the Parish /' which tells just what nobody knowsnamelyhow to bring the law

    to i ( The bear modern upon nuisances Acts of Parliament of all descri whi , ptions ch deal . , with The such author matters observes , are ,

    chiefly the Metropolis Local Management Act , 1855 , the Nuisances Removal Act 1855 the Public Health Act 1858 and the Local

    Act 1858 . But , to any , one who wants leisure , or taste , for this kind of reading , , (!) we offer the following practical hints , which it

    is right to say , are not drawn up by a lawyer , but by a physician , who has held the appointment of Medical Officer of Health to an

    important London parish , and which are a faithful representation of the manner in which those Acts have been worked in the parish

    for which he is responsible . "

    208 Open Council.

    208 OPEN COUNCIL .

    Xxxiil—Open Council.

    XXXIIL—OPEN COUNCIL . ( As these pages themselves are Intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions , expressed the Editors . ) do not hold

    To The Editors Of The English Woman?S Jo...

    To the Editors of the English Woman ? s Journal . In Ladies the interesting , account given in your last two numbers of the Lunatic

    V inall illage , incurable Gheel , ( p cases . 94 ) the following asidethe passage ortion occurs of , " cures If _^ however is from , the fift ori to - g sixty- y five in every hundred . " Even , th prop is statement will doubtless surp y rise

    instead many w ho a s " til curable l regard disease madness , "—but as an will inex you p allow licable me and to ho ad p d el ess fac affl t iction , that , in our St . Luke ' s and Bethlem Hospitals the cures average seventy per

    sake cent . I those believe interested , both for in them the sufferers , such facts themselves cannot , and still more idely for known the or too hopefully dwelt upon .

    I am , Ladies , yours , & c . E . II .

    To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...

    To the Editors of the English Woman ' s Journal . _Having Ladies read , with leasure our account of the Lunatic "Village at GheelI

    shall feel personally obli p ged if y you will kindly answer the following inquiries , throu who i g nteres h the ts medium himself of in your the Journal tients . ? Is In there our a Protestant aer it is stated pastor at hat Grheel were , paypp ,

    there surely sufficient a few , or even Protestants one patient a service , should mi enj gh oy t be the condu privilege cted of at least hem ; occa but - sional Thoug spiritual h reasonable consolation on m and instruction pointsbut in obviousl his own unfit creed for . studhow are

    the lunatics ( English and oth any er foreigners , ) managed y as regards the y language , , the understanding amusements and , & c being , of the understood village ? ? To Also whom , ho at w c Gheel an the should y truly a enter letter into be from

    Eng which addressed lish your ? requesting paper is-, individual abridged to particulars be obtained ? And , / and is where the pamp , ) wr hlet itten in h to

    If you , or any person acquainted with this subject , will be good enoug

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/64/