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TPIE LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION. 581
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VII . Why do not Women _Swita ? VIII . The Evils of Wet Nursing .
IX . The Evils of Perambulators : — In all thirty-two thousand & ve hundred copies of tracts . The
whole have been well received , and , although they have not yet been widely advertised or generally introduced to the trade , second editions
of two of them have been issued , and the first edition of five of the others is now very nearly exhausted . The press generally
continues to give very kind notices of the Association and its tracts . The Committee wish to take this opportunity of expressing their feeling
of obligation to the editors of the numerous publications in which these notices have appeared— -to the editors of the " Lancet" especially .
Many very encouraging expressions of approval have also been received from other sources , including many of the leading members
of the medical profession . The tracts addressed specially to the poor , have been d bthe committees of " The Pure Literature
Society" and approve of " The y Church of England Book-Hawking Union , " and are entered in the lists published by those associations . The
tracts on maternal duties have been widely circulated by the conductors of mothers' meetingsby district visitors , and other ladies .
By the advice of several ladies , and gentlemen well acquainted with the poorthe tracts have been latelyand will in future be , stitched
, , in colored covers . It is intended also to give occasional engravings in the tracts , and to render them in every way as attractive as
possible . Both covers and engravings will involve considerable additional expensewhichhowever , the Committee confidently hope will be
, , met 66 The by increased Committee support have from great the pleasure friends in of announcing the Association that , . by
arrangements recently made , the "English Woman ' s Journal" has been constituted the organ of the Association . Certain of the forthcoming
tracts on general hygiene will be first published in the Journal , and then reprinted from its type . Thus the Association will save
the heavy cost of printer's composition , and the tracts will , moreover , be brought under the notice of the numerous readers of the Journal ,
which is widely circulated among intelligent , philanthropic women . Two of the tracts have been recently published in the Journal , and
very favorably received . " Another arrangement which the Committee announce with much
satisfaction is the recent establishment of the Association in the present officethat of the " English Woman ' s Journal" 14 a , Princes
Street , Cavendish , Square . The partial use of this office , has been obtained on advantageous termsand as it is in all respects very
, suitable for the Association , the Committee confidently hope for most ( satisfactory results from its establishment there .
"Believing that a great part of the weakness and disease which the Association aims to preventis caused by improperly-made clothing ,
, the Committee have recently prepared several improved patterns .
These have been carefully contrived with special reference to health
Tpie Ladies' Sanitary Association. 581
TPIE LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION . 581
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/21/
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