English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), September 1860, Edition 1 of 1, Page 52

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- 52 SANITARY LECTURES.
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  off . Only think of a poor mother of a family having all that unnecessary trouble , in addition to all her other cares and toil ! And
  
  think how that acts . Her children do not get washed enough . Their clothes do not get washed enough . It is impossible for them to
  
  be cleanly under such circumstances . We must not go idly talking and comlaining of the poor being dirty . What must be done is
  
  to influence p the proper authorities to attend to the water supply , . Wellhereas I said beforethe medical officers of health should be
  
  applied , to . , District visitors , should be aware of the stringent provisions of the law with regard to these mattersbecause I believe
  
  that if it were more stringently enforced , it would , be the means of effecting an immense improvement in the sanitary condition of the
  
  poor The . " third lecture of the course , on " Healthy Dwellings and
  
  prevailing Sanitary Defects in the Houses of the Working Classes , " was delivered bHenry RobertsEsq . F . S . A .
  
  From this lecture y , which was th , e lon , gest , most complete and valuable in the whole course , limited space permits only a few short
  
  extracts . With regard to the influence of bad dwellings on the ' moral and siritual condition of the poorMr . Roberts quoted the following
  
  p , passage from the writings of the Bishop _Cof Ripon : — " The hysical circumstances of the poor paralyze all the efforts
  
  of the clergyman p , the schoolmaster , the Scripture reader , or the -city missionary for their S _23 iritual or their moral welfare . . . \
  
  Every effort to create a'Spiritual -tone of feeling is _eoimter acted by a set of hysical circumstances incompatible with the exercise of
  
  common p morality . Talk of morality amongst people who herd menwomenand children togetherwith no regard to age or sex
  
  in one , narro , w , confined apartment ! , You might as well talk of , cleanliness in a styor of limpid purity in the contents of a
  
  cess-, pool !" And the following from a speech of Lord Palmerston's : —
  
  _" When a cottage is in such a ramshackle state that it is _impossible for the wife to keep it clean , she becomes a slattern , everything
  
  goes to ruin , and the man is disgusted and flies to the beer-shop . If the , on cott the e contrary decent , and the respectable wife feels she she can doe , b s y a little and th exertion e man , make joys
  
  the comfort ag and _hajDpiness of his , home , stays , away from the beer-• shop , and the money he would spend in liquor goes to the benefit $
  
  of his wife and children . I had an example of that in a double cottage' of my own . It was in a dreadful state , the walls were not air-tihtit had a brick floora bad roofand everything
  
  uncomfortable g . , The le who , ied it were , slovens and slatterns and quarrelsome peop bad neighbors occup . At a small expense it was made ,
  
  tidy ; boarded floors , were put down , a little porch erected , with a woodrhouse and other . conveniencesand from that time these
  
  people altered entirely their character , , altered entirely their conduct ,
  
  and became well conducted _peoxile _, and good neighbors / '
  
  52 Sanitary Lectures.
  
  52 SANITARY LECTURES .
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- English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/52/

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