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44 A VISIT TO AN UOTASHIONABLE LOCALITY.
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satisfaction may prove a to hindrance know that to there benefiting is a stall this Institution at the Crystal , it will Palace be a ,
Road specially als devoted o that blind to the travellers sale of goods visit nearly manufactured all the suburb in the s Euston of the ;
metropolis the the which goods efforts was manufactured , of g who iven the will to Association me gladl . by y B the receive y a are reference Superintendent not orders confined to and the exhibit , solely Report it will to for specimens be the seen 1859 support - that 60 of ,
. recei of 63 the are pt of shop benefits lied in with the directl Euston work y " from at Road their , this , Institution " own 150 homes persons ; , " at of being sums this number vary now ing in ,
- on and the emp average supp loyed at from the £ 1 Societ 4 s . to y ' s 10 Institution s . 6 d . per classes week ; 28 ; receive 9 47 are engaged instruction instructe in _d
at their own homes , and in parochial ; are tion variou . * s offici Althoug al capacities h this statement ; and 3 receive cannot pens fail ion to s be from encourag the Associ ing to ablindit is much
all who take an interest in the welfare of the , yet - to decreasing be regretted from that the , causes for want alread of y funds given , , ) and ( now your unfortunately Committee who
cannot extend assistance to the 130 blind men women are have obli present appl ged ying generall begg day to them after ing y families in for day the hel not p depending streets —the only , majority or to on inmates endure them of these the of for workhouses heavy support applicants affliction , and ; are they are at of
blindness , but also to , suffer the pain of knowing that their wives of and life hel . pless , children of them are insufficientl indeed y bear supplied their with trials the necessarie with true s Many
, , _; Societ Committee Christian y should resi feel gnation have that this the to their me is an onl Heavenl s y placed an y additional at Father its disposal 's reason will ; to but wh render y your this
them "Of immediate the 63 blind help . persons ht emp trade loyed in at other their Institutions own homes for by the the
•• Association to _JBlind rel ; but they , , in 50 consequence were obliged taug to of enter not workhouses having s regular or depend work on on which alms
< for support y , were after leaving the Institution in , which they were educated . ...
the " past The year satisfactory , is more condition fully shown of the by the Teaching following Department circumstances during —> - lied
• with 8 teachers men work and by women at the their Society , having own , an homes been d 4 taug ; have 6 ht are bee trades n engaged sent , are as as teache assistant supp rs to
other Institutions . 170 ¦* During of this number the past 93 year have , the been whole number lied with directl work y at benefited their own has _hornet been , supp
have at emp sums ; loyed partici vary at pated ing the from in Institution , the 24 reli s , to g , ious Is and . 6 and d . 58 per mental have week received training , 39 have given pecuniary been to instructed all connected hel ' p , - and . ¦
with the Association .
44 A Visit To An Uotashionable Locality.
44 A VISIT TO AN _UOTASHIONABLE _LOCALITY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/44/
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