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Transactions Of The National Association...
workers . _Tlie chief argument in fayor of small reformatories is its bring the fami ing * l individual systemon influence the moral to "bear , throug athies h what of the has inm been ates c ; alled but
Mr . Fraser y holds that , home influences symp cannot be simulated or reproduced , and that it is better to subject boys at any rate to the
more natural influences of a public school system . Public Health .
or We the succeeding have not space depar to tment enter . into The a sub detailed divisions examin of the ation section of this
de-Health voted to ' S II anitar "Th y e Science Causes which , —I . Modif ,- " The the Condition Public of Health the P " ublic and y ;
III ., " The ; Improvement ., of the Public Health . " Under the first head we have chieflstatistical pers on the sanitary condition of
towns and districts : y under the second pa , examinations into the causes which have led to decreased or increased mortality ; happily , with
the march of sanitary knowledge , it is generally a decrease that falls to be recorded : while under the last head are treated all those
mehas chan invented ical , physica or discovered l , social , and for moral the improvement agencies which of publi sanitary c health science .
Social Economy . The most prominent questions dealt with in this department are
those relating to labor and the laboring classes . Under the subdivision entitled " LaborCapitaland Strikes / _" a series of valuable
papers are contributed on , the organisation , and working of trades ' societies . These bodies have lately assumed gigantic proportions ,
and are reaching a more and more perfect system of union , and taking Association a wider has range been of at action work . inquiring For two into years that a committee system and of the its
effects , and the preliminary report here given will , we believe , be followed by one containing the fullest and most valuable information
on the subject . The division " Social Provision" opens with an able " On the Economical Appropriation of Wages / ' by Robert
paper Baker , and other papers deal with particular branches of this most important subject . The other questions with which this department
ordinarily deals are such as legislative interference with the hours and wages of labor ; legislative regulation of professions ,
trades , and employment generally , and of price and means of lemigrationits effectand true conditions ; exercise of
public supp and y ; private charit , y ; relief , of the poor ; industrial employment of women ; industrial and economical instruction of the laboring
classes ; social economics in relation to education ; etc . The group of " On the Industrial Employment of _Women" we need
not papers recur to here . The subjects of Miss Twining's papers , " The Supervision of Workhouse Girls , " and the " Labors of the
Workhouse Visiting Society , _" are also well known to our readers . In
taking leave of this volume we need hardly express our sense of its
848 Notices Or Books.
848 notices or books .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/60/
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