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    48 SANITARY LECTURES.

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    As Many Readers Of The English Woman's J...

    book , in which , are seen the funds contributed , the sources whence they eanieand the manner in which they are expended . All these

    books are , kept by the children themselves . So , at the very time when they are supposed to be employed in cooking only , they are

    taught the very important art of book-keeping . They thus acquire the valuable habit of thoughtfulness and order in the expenditure of

    money . How valuable this is I need not for a moment stay to prove . Below , is an abstract of these accounts , extending over a

    period of three years . "Food supplied during the three years ending September 30 , 1858 .

    1855-6 . 1856-7 . 1857-S . Total . Puddings Meat Dinners 1 , 180 160 1 , 589 99 3 , 384 124 5 , 663 873

    Mutton Broth ( quarts ) 27 71 98 Beef Gruel Tea ( ( ditto ditto ) ) 34 _£ 29 15 29 85 148 44 _£

    C Soup alves ' -foot Jell ( y ditto ( ditto ) ) 1 , 376 969 3 . . . . . . 2 , 345 3 < £ sd £ _s . d .

    . . Di Total tto Income ditto , , 1856 1855 - - 7 6 47 78 14 2 0 8 _£ Total 1855-6 Expenditure , 43 10 10

    Ditto ditto , 1857-8 67 11 10 Di Ditto tto ditto ditto , 185 1856 7 - -8 7 . . . .. . 74 59 11 0 4 0 _£ Balance in , hand 16 6 2

    . £ 193 8 6 _£ £ 193 8 6 _£ _"At first we confined the distribution of the food to those sick

    persons who were not in receipt of parochial relief ; but as we went onit occurred to us that in connexion with many Unions , indeed I

    believe , with almost all , the relieving officer is in the habit of ordering occasional extra relief to the out-door poor . There are many

    in receipt of a weekly parochial allowance who in sickness require additional reliefwhich is given to them by the parish—say

    , eighteenpence or two shillings per week—to be expended in meat or other suitable food . Now in such cases , when tlie poor person goes

    to the butcher's shop he is but a small purchaser , and is , consequentlynot always very well served . But even if a good p - iece of

    meat be , obtained , it is in all probability very wastefully and badly cooked , and rarely serves the sick man or woman for more than two

    meals . Indeed , the probability is , that it will all be cooked and eaten at one mealif not by the sick person , by the hungry family

    among whom it will , be difficult to keep it . Well , it occurred to us , , that if the money allowed for extra imrochial relief in time of

    sickness were paid to us , we could very advantageously supply sick per-

    48 Sanitary Lectures.

    48 SANITARY LECTURES .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/48/