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THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL. 155
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to yourselves what must be tlie consequences of overcrowded dwellings . I have already spoken of intoxication and and of its matter degrading qualities maintain ;
but in this there state is another of things very there serious is an important actual impossibility . I of giving moral educationI maintain that these classes cannot be taught . "
here A . few Lord points Shaftesbury . in this admirable spoke of address the impossibilit must not y pass of centralising unnoticed the
the _aroLising guardianshi of the p of le public in each health locality . What to understand was wanted and was redress
their own shortcomings peop . He alluded to the fact that there are sixty thousand children still-born in England in the course of every year , of infant
deformity and that the and hosp disease itals revealed particularl a terrible y devoted story to . the He cure said that the
main enemies to the health of our _popiilation might be summed up in two causes—bad water and bad air . He had seen the greatest which l d
b possible y knocking effect down produced the end by destroy house and ing making a court it a common was a thoroug cue sac h- than the istration of
fare . No one measure had done more good reg lodging le slept -houses ni . htl Althoug in the h common from fifty lod thousand ing-houses to of sixty London thousand , there
peop had not been for g the y last two years one g single case of fever engendered in those houses . and of
He spoke of the Saturday half-holiday , of gymnasiums , to the see necessity every woman of good of cooking the working ; saying classes on this hav of head the e some , " knowle I should classes dge like of
that cookery they , for are I am ten certain times , more from improvident experience and wasteful working than the , wealthiest one of which peop is le ignorance of the land in . illustration It arises of from which a variet I will y tell of causes you a ,
story . I came to this town , some years ago when there was a stagnation and of broug employment ht to the , when door peop of famine le were receiving with a magnificent little or no wages _supj ) ly ,
were , of fish on the coast : and I said to one of two women , ' Why don't you they get are fish so and nasty make , they a have dinner no of taste that at ? ' and all . ' the But answer if , instead was , ' of Oh a ,
Lancashire womanit had been a French woman , with a couple of made sous in her dinner pocket of , fish , she fit would for have a royal boug table ht some . Read savoury Soyer herbs , and and the
a is effect not to he be produced set aside in with the indifference Crimea , and . you The will London see this Ladies proposition ' Assothe le
ciation for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge among peop is an Concluding admirable with association this impressive . " . _" Surely it is a matter
passage ventible of deep and mortality solemn in consideration this country , when amounts we are to no told less that than the ninety
prehour thousand . We a may year . be Let told us these say things forty thousand are but in , that the course is _foiir backs of lives nature an ,
and we ought not to interfere ; on such we will turn our . We
The Meetings At Liverpool. 155
THE MEETINGS AT _LIVERPOOL . 155
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/11/
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