New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

course that children should be herded and afflicted
in this way This life left distinct pauper talnt
upon the children. Separated from the normal lie
of the community. when grown they were fouhd III
capable of taking place in the world and a +arse
percentage of them became irreclamable paupers
In the nursing Of the dependent sick, also thefe
great abuses. 1t often done by Old pau
per incapable physically or mentally OF
giving the patients proper care Hygenic arrange
ments were bad. Dust bins were found under hos
ptal windows and patients died in swarIns from
blood poisoning. An agitation was begun "hlch
resulted in making women eligible 10 the boards or
guardians One thousand them serving in
that capacity Their services are highly valued
and they always returned when they oIIeT
themselves as candidates. They have been found
TO possess special intelligence ana faculy Ior lLe
work with an eye for details which escape men
found the children without fianneIs in winter or
with not enough bedding TO Keep mem warm arm nof NE
of the children either boarded out in respect
and have the normal life of other children, the
board establishes its own cottages where a goqa
each. The women greatly increased the number
care Of the aged The whole system has oeen
orally acknowledged III England.
LADY SANDHURSTS WORK.
when the county councils were established.
back in the eighties. three women were returned TO
the first county council They Miss Jane
Golden, Lady Sandhurst and Miss Cons, all women
distinguished character position and public
vices of the defeated male candidates began
action to tInseat the women claiming that the
Parliamentary act did not make them eligible. a
decision was rendered his favor after the matter
had been in court years. Meanwhile the three
women had been serving with great acceptance.
Lady Sandhurst. who was the wife OF one OF the
governors of India, had done great deal for the
famine children of India, and had founded a chill
dren's hospital there. She devoted herself spe-
cially to looking after the baby farming, which
was a fertile source of abuses. Miss Cons, owing
to phianthropic work, specially informed upon
the housing of the poor. Miss Golden took under
her special the women'S department OF the
lunatc asylums. Therefore. when the women We're
unseated. the men found themselves unwillingy
Obliged assume duties which they mad gladly left
to the The council passed resolution
asking Parliament to pass an act making women
eligible to the position Since then the LONDON
council has repeated this resolution and
Parliament has never found time TO take
the matter The weak point OF our government
as Americans aware is Its parish pump
feature Parliament is obliged TO leRislate with re-
gard 10 the minuest local affaiTSa of things
which you can understand by imagining your Con
Washington legiSlatng for all the dlHerent
States The result is that Parliament is so over
with business that not more than one Dill OF
first rate importance be passed any ses-
sion. 1t makes all change slow. and Is, in
fact the chief obstacle to progress in England
CIVIC HEALTH THEIR SPECIALITY
But in the urban district councils women actu-
ally perform the same work the town coun-
ellis excepting as to police They administer street
cleaning lighting transportation. sanitation, baths
libraries a thousand things. We have nothing like
the number Of private corporations handling such
matters that you have. great many more things
are done by the municipality. and women are ad-