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THE GIANT OF GUILDHALL. 265
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Not Unaptly Does Social Science This Yea...
They have , from . the first , "been allowed a free voice in regard to all those departments of social life which naturally fall -within their
sphere as Christian citizens ; and the result has justified their admission , since the most generally respected of theses have dignified
the sections with their presence or with their written contributions . " The Association" says Mr . Hastings " has twice received ( at
• Liverpool and Dublin , ) from the hands , of Miss Nightingale the most valuable information and advice as to the proper construction
of hospitals , and the best plan for obtaining hospital statistics . " The papers contributed on these subjects to the Liverpool meeting
having been printed separately , by order of the Council , were sent to hospital in the United Kingdom ; and their contents , it is
known every , have exercised a beneficial influence over the authorities of those institutions .
Miss Nightingale , though hy far the most experienced and influentialis not the onlladwho has lent her aid to the
Department of Public , Health ; y the y Ladies' Sanitary Society , which is affiliated to the Associationhas rendered the most important
ser-, vices by its practical exertions in the cause . connexion The Workhouse with the Visiting Association Society and has Miss also Twining been developed 7 s persistent in
efforts to arouse public oj > inion on , the condition of the recipients of legal charithave resulted in practical improvement in many
workhousesbesides y awakening that degree of general interest on the subject , which renders it much easier to introduce modifications in law .
mined The more great workers that need their , more in thi ticular lad s , y as visitors workhouse in all , more works shall peop of charity le be in well each among man town aged us , deter , is well of - par
-classified , and rendered a social disinfector rather than a fresh source of morbid injury . each each
As we turn over the pages of this volume , subject , referencerecals the animated intellectual interest , the bright social , gaietof last 's meeting in Dublin . In this year the evening
arrangements y year are particularly complete , and the leading journal exhorts England to show liberal hospitality to the numerous
foreigners who are our invited guests . One great loss has , however , hoped truly " that thrown the a Prince gloom Consort over the who prospects took of a warm the year interest . " It in was the
welfare of the Association" would , have consented to preside over the London meetingand lend , to its proceedings the invaluable aid
, which of his intellect has closed , experience over this , and and Eur so op m ean any reputation other expectations . The grav , has e
deprived the nation of one of the warmest and most enlightened promoters of Social Science . "
Ere these lines are printed and published it will be the very eve measure of the great of success Congress , popularit . Let y us , and gratefull usefulness y wish to for the an Giant amp of le
Guildhall .
VOX ,. IX , XT
The Giant Of Guildhall. 265
THE GIANT OF GUILDHALL . 265
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/49/
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