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    240 ANNUAL REPOBT OF LADIES' SANITARY AS...

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

    good has been tlius done . The Committee feel assured that a complete collection of this kind would form a very efficient means of

    promoting * their objects , and they earnestly ask the aid of their friends and of inventors , in its formation . The reports and

    prospectuses of all Associations engaged in -work directly contributing to sanitary improvement are also being * collected and registered at

    the office . In short , the Committee are endeavoring to employ every kind of means to make it a useful centre for the diffusion of

    sanitary information of all kinds . Already many inquiries are made there .

    In the autumn of 1859 , a member of the Committee established a Branch in Aberdeen , under the title of the Aberdeen Ladies '

    Sanitary Association . Subjoined are a few extracts from its Report : — " The number of enrolled members is about seventy .

    " The chief work undertaken by the Society has been the diffusion of sanitary knowledge by means of public lectures and the press .

    " The introductory lecture , on . ' Sanitary Reform / was delivered hy Alexander Thomson , Esq ., of Banchory . Two thousand copies of

    this lecture have been published hy the Association for distribution throughout the city . The second lectureon ' Fever and Fever

    , Poisons , ' was delivered by the Rev . Dr . J . C . Brown : this has been twice re-delivered . The third lecture , on The Influence of the Mind

    upon the Health of the Body / -was delivered by the Rev . Alexander Munro , Secretary to the Association . The Secretary has also delivered

    a course of ten lectures to the young people attending the Crooked Lane Evening Factory School . In these lectures , special attention

    was directed to sanitary topics of chief importance to those of the auditors who intended to become nursery maids . Lectures have

    also been delivered in several neighboring towns and villages on various sanitary subjects . "

    "In addition to considerable numbers of the Parent Association ' s tracts , the Aberdeen Association has circulated two thousand copies

    of Dr . Pairman ' s ' Counsels on Health / and several other similar publications . "

    In January a Branch Association was formed at Brighton , under the title of the Brighton and Sussex Ladies' Sanitary Association .

    Subjoined are extracts from a letter from one of its secretaries : — " The subscribers now number about seventy .

    " The Society has aimed at a practical realization of the Parent Association's aimsin the following ways : —

    , " 1 st . By the circulation of sanitary literature . The Association commenced its work by making grants of the Parent Association's

    tracts to clergymen , district visitors , and to the Town and the Female Town Missions . Some pleasing instances of good resulting from

    this distribution have been reported to the Committee . The Association has appointed agents at East GrinsteadWorthingArundel

    and Petworth . , , ,

    " 2 nd . By holding Cottage Sanitary Meetings in some of the worst

    240 Annual Repobt Of Ladies' Sanitary As...

    240 ANNUAL REPOBT OF LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/24/