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422 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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The Journal Of The Ivorhhouse Visiting S...
manence extending to it the in work the nei in the hbourhood actual locality possibl , and throug might hout also the be country the means . Not of
influential only would - such ersons branch direct g societies attention , comprising , and give y wei the ght names to the of proposal benevolent for and
ad-- mitting to become visitors guardians p to , workhouses , and to take , but part also in to the the electi object ons of . " inducing * gentlemen
We earnestly entreat our female readers , who liave leisure , to consider this matter of local committees . Tliere are workhouses
everywhere , and probably not a single copy of the "English "Woman ' s Journal" is posted to a locality where a link with the Workhouse
Visiting * Society would not do some good . It could at once be secured by entering * into communication with the Secretary , Miss Louisa
Twining , at No . 3 , eaks Waterloo thus in Place her , late Regent letter Street to Lord . John Russell : Mrs . Jameson
sp been " Perhaps committed , however by the , the exclusion greatest of , the female of most workhouses supervision fatal mistake , where which ¦ females has ever are
dition concerned " Eng of lish , these is women the p present laces desire : — management how that far there they sh fulfil o our uld their be some economic purpose inquir . as * y Christian into * * of the keep con and
have ing charitable down been pauperism institutions introduced and ; in how vice ; far what localities they has fulfil been and their the for what result reasons where purpose lad the y door -visitors has
some , leg been islation closed , ag that ainst one them purpose in others of a . prison It has is munici long to reform been acknowledged the that criminal , b but y our it
seems of a workhouse still to be is a to part punish of the paupers creed . of We our know of unconvicted too palities well what , crime spectacles one purpose to be of
be found vice , laziness within , those and all wretched kinds lish and precincts degrees . of But tender is no hearts ameliorating and good process are under to
of standing the even destitute , attempted and gentle of their p and are own discreet Eng sex bearing women not to , be to allowed be rejected to take as unfit an interest guardian in s ;
test them ? , yet Ladies taxed who to contribute have been to district a system -visitors which who in their have conscience ministered they to de the
sick and aged poor in their homes , think it hard , that their proteges should be absolutel to the y abandone that d they when would they enter rather a workhouse to the prison . It has than been go to a the
reunion proach and I poor believe that there are parish go officials who would gladly enthat courage the , such lleformatory notions among Prison the at _Fulham parish poor is a . paradise Now it of must neatness be acknowled orderand ged
, , prisons laborious to activity be made compared less humane with , or some our workhouses workhouses I more have so seen ? " ; but are our
We conclude with the following extracts from , the Society ' s Journal . AGED INMATES .
class '' It as lias are been admitted said that into many comfortable of the inmates almshouses of workhouses , but the few are onl of y the can same hope
ment who for this accept be refuge reserved the for charity their for those of last an days of almshouse the . same As it , class is wh not y who should considered are not reduced degrading some to better accep to treat those t the - , turn contributed to the
port charity " Now of the of 1 a poor h workhouse appen in their to know , parish and who at . this have time in their of two such cases , inmates sup des of a - - cri workhouse ; both is above were candidates sixtythe other for almshouses _aboye seventy of a both very having superior rented
houses ption in ; the one parish , and - being , widows . The former , , having been a widow
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422 Notices Of Books.
422 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/62/
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