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    I 238 THE THIRD ANMAL REPORT O3B< THE

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

    tion , I set the children to read tlie ' Cheap Doctor , ' I never heard them read with so much zest and animationand the result was

    , , that nearly all brought a halfpenny the next morning * to buy a copy of the tract . " A district visitor in Brightonstates that a woman

    , in her district has , through reading the " Cheap Doctor " removed into a new lodging where she can have pure air . One poor

    shoemaker has testified his attachment to the Association by writing a tract for it , and he is now writing another upon what he

    touchingly calls " Domestic Management under Trying Circumstances . " A poor woman recently called at the Association's ofnce to beg the

    Assistant Secretary to prepare a tract on the _injiirious effect of long hours of labor in the city dressmaking establishmentsand offered

    , herself to write out a sketch containing facts from her own sad experience . Other cases prove that the tracts benefit many besides

    the poor . The recent establishment of a swimming bath for ladies , in Brighton , partially in consequence of the tract entitled " "Why

    do not Women Swim , " is one example . Many other facts proving the utility of the tracts have been

    communicated to the Committee . They take this opportunity of earnestly requesting those friends who may circulate the tracts with

    satisfactory results , kindly to communicate them to the Secretaries . A knowledge of them would be highly encouraging in many ways .

    It is gratifying to know that the tracts—incomplete and few though they still are—have been the means of directing the

    attention of philanthropists in other _countries-to a new means of promoting sanitary reform . The following extract is from a lady of high social

    position in Hungary : — _"I have been most agreeably surprised by these very useful tracts

    on the management of children . I assure you that I shall certainly do all I can to propagate the principles _contained in them . The

    first thing I intend to do is , to translate the excellent rules laid down , and then to try to carry them out _j > _ractically among the poor here . "

    One of the leading members of the medical profession in Amsterdam has promised to carry out the Association ' s plans in that city .

    Similar promises have been received from a lady in Hobart Town , Tasmania .

    The Committee have experienced much difficulty in obtaining suitable manuscripts for tracts , and they take this _opjDortunity

    earnestly to request their medical and literary friends to aid them in this part of the work . They have very great pleasure in announcing

    that Sir John Forbes , Dr . William Farr , Dr . E . H . Sieveking , Dr . Southwood SmithDr . John Sutherlandand Dr . Charles West

    have kindly consented , to act as an editing , committee . One or more , of these gentlemen now revise every tract issued by the Association .

    It has been found undesirable to continue the arrangements formerly made for the publication of tracts in the English Woman ' s

    _Journal , and no connexion now exists between the Association and

    the conductors of that excellent periodical , save the common bond

    I 238 The Third Anmal Report O3b< The

    I 238 THE THIRD _ANMAL REPORT O _3 B _< THE

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/22/