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118 LOCAL SANITARY ASSOCIATIONS.
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tliexn any association which bids fair to help him in waging war the against A very gain disease , first there whom and is a death parish the . association school , and should its mistress try to should capture be teachers one to its of
ranks . What a band of sanitary missionaries might the of these schools become ! The matron of the workhouse is another person of great
importance . Considering the enormous , numbers of men , women , and matrons children , they who must yearly be pass counted under as the among superintendence the most desirable of these
recruits , which the association could acquire . It is amply worth , while to ponder upon the truth , of the above
remarks , since to apply for help to the wrong persons is merely to waste powder and shot ; and some such simple programme of action
would enable any member of the committee , when visiting purposely or accidentally any new town or district , to bestow her energies in
charge one simp of le unbecoming and closely intrusion connected could order fairl , and y be in made quarters against where a bene no
volent worker . Other centres there are of the most obvious description . The
ministers of dissenting congregations have an immense influence over m the anufacturing poor ; and still towns more . The over p the arish shop guardians keepers must and artisans be sought of
for pur among Methodists and Baptists and Independents ; and these bodies of Christian worshippers have each a class organisation ,
schools , and some provision for visiting the sick and destitute .. One induced by one they to disseminate should be soug simp ht le b tract y the s sanitary on hygien missionary eto enforce , and
, h exertion ygienic in teaching the homes in their which schools they , visit and . to Cleanliness carry it out being by practical defined
in Scripture as next to godliness , the ministers of religion cannot refuse to let it take a secondary place in their instructions .
Masters of manufactories are again a potent agency , and their wives exercise a powerful sway over the work-people . Both
the factory may and the cottage will depend for their healthy regulation on the ruling heads . The evils of the former may be mitigated , the
iinhealthiness of the latter may be absolutely removed . In fine , we may say , wherever one . person represents or controls
the interests of many , whether those interests be spiritual or secular , mentalmoralor industriallet us aim at securing the hearty
, , , interest and effectual co-operation of that person . "We shall leave a seed behind which will grow and spread in our absence like
the mustard tree in the Bible , establishing its own local and independent life . Of course , such individuals wiU form small
committees to aid in carrying out their plans in tlxeir particular districts , and by this means sanitary knowledge and practice will
extend hour by hour .
But the beginning of all this must be sought in strong personal
118 Local Sanitary Associations.
118 LOCAL SANITARY _ASSOCIATIONS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/46/
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