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    ladies' sanitary association. 237

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    * F A The Gratefull Ail Review Ures Comm...

    of sanitary tracts . Tlie following have been issued since the publication of the last Report : —

    10 5 , 000 000 " " Health Cheap Doctor of Mothers . " ( . 2 " nd ( 2 Edition nd Edition . ) . )

    5 , 000 " Massacre of the Innocents . " By the Rev . Charles Kingsley . 5 , , 000 " Power of Soap and Vaccinated Water . " ?

    5000 " When were you " 4 5 , , 000 000 . " " How Health to of Manage the Pari a sh Bab . " B " y Doctor ( 2 nd Edition R . Dmitt . ) .

    1 1 , , , 000 000 " " Worth Influence of of Fresh Wholesome Air . " Drink . "

    1 , 000 " Advantage of Warm Clothing . " 1 , 000 " Use of Pure Water . " 1 , 000 " Value of Good Food . "

    fi In all h , for dred ty-four trac thousand ts issued , b making y the Association a total of seventy since its -six commence thousand

    ment . These tracts have been widely circulated throughout the country .

    c A iation large . quantit Many clergymen y have been , district gratu visitors itously , and distribu other ted lab b orers y the among

    Assothe stantl poor y lending , have testified and distributing to the utility them of in the various tracts , ways and . are They now h con ave

    been found especially useful by the conductors of mothers' meetings . ment Other in ladies the boxes have p of laced linen those lent tracts to relating mothers to b infant Dorcas manage Socie- - poor y

    thousand ties . Others have have been placed iven them b the lending libraries of the . Upwards Infirmary of and two Lying-in-Hospital at Manchester gy to managers the poor mothers in those

    institutions . In the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street , also , the _sician tracts In on all infant cases management within the knowled are given away of the by Committee the head ph the yge ,

    . distribution has been attended with satisfactory results . There have been many very gratifying proofs that the tracts are .

    the appreciated incumbent also of by a thickl the poor y populated themselves district . The in Stepney Rev . J , . sa Rowsell id in a , . continu

    public speech : —" These tracts have been circulated by us , we - they member are ally so cir are culate eagerl of the the them y asked upper first ; and house for things at by the , sent that our present me _} are _Door a moment asked large as these for number there . whenever A are of noble none them our lor which , d dis and , a * - *

    very library trict ever had visitors for " the A go conductor poor into the writes houses of , a " mothers Your of the books ' meetin poor are . " the The states most manager " useful I _created of wg a . g

    . , quite a ' sensation' the other day among my poor women by reading the * Cheap Doctor / and now I find quite a reform Bible in the

    whole court in the matter of fresh air . I now let my - woman sell your tracts among my poor , and they buy them

    lesson eagerly in . " our Another village lad scho y ol states a few , " days I went ago to , and give , my by way usual of reading _varia-

    Ladies' Sanitary Association. 237

    ladies' sanitary association . 237

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/21/