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    SANITARY LECTURES. 49

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

    sons with , food from our kitchen . This is now actually done . When the relieving officer has to order extra relief in sicknesshe sends

    , an order to us for so many dinners . Our charge is threepence per dinnerand thus eighteenpence provides a sick person with six good

    dinners , , and he gets the full benefit of the meat himself . This plan has worked remarkably wellto the great satisfaction of the

    rate-, payers , and to the great benefit of the poor people . You will easily understand , that in the case of clergymen and parochial visitors , it

    must be a very great advantage to be able thus to provide for the sick whom they visit . In most cases where food is given , it is given

    through servants , who are not always careful as to the quality of the ly . But from this kitchen the food is given hot and well cooked

    and supp under the direction of the medical officer in attendance on the , sick person . I cannot describe to you the comfort and satisfaction

    this plan affords to myself and all connected with the school . " After describing the instruction in laundry work and other

    _household matters imparted in his schools , Mr . Armitstead gave the following satisfactory testimony as to the effect of the industrial

    training on the intellectual progress of the children . " I have said so much in praise of industrial training , that I may

    have given a false impression as to my ideas upon the subject of intellectual culture . I have only to say , that I do not wish to see

    one whit less of intellectual development among our poor than at present exists ; and I am thankful to say that I can refer to the

    reports of Her Majesty ' s Inspector , in relation to our own schools , as testimony to the factthat since we have introduced this industrial

    , training , the children instead of retrograding * intellectually have progressed . This is not to be wondered atfor we well know that

    , the bow that is continually strung loses its elasticity , and that a child who is always poring over books will not make any more

    progress in the long run than one who finds relief at times from study in other employments , _esiDecially if those employments are

    such as promote its physical development . When industrial employments are kept within due boundsthey are not found to

    inter-, fere The in any second way lectur with e the , on mental ei San progress itary Defects of the and children Medical . "

    Shortcomings , " was delivered by Dr . Edwin Lankester , M . D . Dr . Lankester' stated his strong conviction that very many both

    of the prevalent " Sanitary Defects and Medical Shortcomings" are attributable to the gross ignorance of sanitary science which exists

    among us . Pie called special attention to the fact that this ignorance prevails as much among the rich as among the poorand he

    , earnestly urged upon the members of the Association the necessity of thoroughly instructing' themselves in sanitary science , and of

    reforming their own habits if they would work efficiently for the enlightenment and reformation of their poor neighbors . It may

    be remarked , en passant , that the officers of the Association have all along practically recognised this necessity , by providing classes ,

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    Sanitary Lectures. 49

    SANITARY LECTURES . 49

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 49, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/49/