control, and pouring abuse on Matthieu de Montmorency as her probable adviser, left Clichy, and broke off his acquaintance with Madame Recamier. (To be continued.) A. A. P. THE Committee, in presenting their Third Annual Report, have gratefully to record the continued progress of the Association. While a review of the past year shows very many of the difficulties and failures necessarily incident to all new undertakings, the Committee humbly and gratefully believe it shows also enough of success and usefulness to prove that their work is of God, and that He is still with them in it. The receipts of the last year are much greater than those of the preceding one, and one hundred and fifty-six new members have been added to the Association. The Committee rejoice to believe that this increase is not one of mere names and money, but in very many cases an accession of earnest and devoted workers, anxious personally to aid in the prosecution of the Association's plans. The Committee believe this not only because of the kind practical aid and valuable suggestions which they continually receive from many of the members, but because most of the rest who are personally unknown have joined the Association under circumstances which prove their membership to be a spontaneous result of devotion to the work. It is certain that for the Association to be really efficient, it must be, not merely a working centre supported by subscribers, but a body composed of active members, and the Committee are glad to believe it is really becoming so. Though the title of the Association has been altered from "The Ladies' Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge" to its present more comprehensive one, in indication of the Committee's earnest wish to do actual sanitary work, as well as diffuse knowledge, they have hitherto devoted their efforts almost exclusively to the promotion of the latter object. They believe that for the present the Association can do more widely extended good by arousing mind and conscience to the consideration of the sore physical evils which prevail, by diffusing a knowledge of the laws of health, and by pointing out the causes of disease, so that the poor and their friends may make intelligent efforts for their removal, than it can by a more direct course of action. The Committee have continued the preparation and publication of sanitary tracts. The following have been issued since the publication of the last Report: 10,000 "Cheap Doctor." (2nd Edition.) 5,000 "Health of Mothers." (2nd Edition.) 5,000 "Massacre of the Innocents." By the Rev. Charles Kingsley. 5,000 "Power of Soap and Water.” 5,000 "When were you Vaccinated ?" 5,000 "How to Manage a Baby." (2nd Edition.) 4,000 "Health of the Parish." By Doctor R. Druitt. 1,000 "Worth of Fresh Air." 1,000 "Influence of Wholesome Drink." 1,000 "Value of Good Food." In all, forty-four thousand, making a total of seventy-six thousand five hundred tracts issued by the Association since its commencement. These tracts have been widely circulated throughout the country. A large quantity have been gratuitously distributed by the Association. Many clergymen, district visitors, and other laborers among the poor, have testified to the utility of the tracts, and are now constantly lending and distributing them in various ways. They have been found especially useful by the conductors of mothers' meetings. Other ladies have placed those tracts relating to infant management in the boxes of linen lent to poor mothers by Dorcas Societies. Others have placed them in lending libraries. Upwards of two thousand have been given by the managers of the Infirmary and Lying-in-Hospital at Manchester to the poor mothers in those institutions. In the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street, also, the tracts on infant management are given away by the head physician. In all cases within the knowledge of the Committee, the distribution has been attended with satisfactory results. There have been many very gratifying proofs that the tracts are appreciated also by the poor themselves. The Rev. J. Rowsell, the incumbent of a thickly populated district in Stepney, said in a public speech:-"These tracts have been circulated by us, we continually circulate them; and at the present moment there are none which are so eagerly asked for by our poor as these. A noble lord, a member of the upper house, sent me a large number of them, and they are the very first things that are asked for whenever our district visitors go into the houses of the poor." The manager of a library for the poor writes, "Your books are the most useful we ever had." A conductor of a mothers' meeting states, "I created quite a 'sensation' the other day among my poor women by reading the 'Cheap Doctor,' and now I find quite a reform in the whole court in the matter of fresh air. I now let my Biblewoman sell your tracts among my poor, and they buy them eagerly." Another lady states, "I went to give my usual reading lesson in our village school a few days ago, and, by way of varia tion, I set the children to read the 'Cheap Doctor,' I never heard them read with so much zest and animation, and the result was, that nearly all brought a halfpenny the next morning to buy a copy of the tract." A district visitor in Brighton, states 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 office to beg the Assistant Secretary to prepare a tract on the injurious effect of long hours of labor in the city dressmaking establishments, and 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 practically 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 opportunity 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 Smith, Dr. John Sutherland, and 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 of cordial sympathy and friendliness which should ever exist between all true workers for social good. A. The diffusion of sanitary knowledge by means of classes and lectures has been continued. A course of twelve weekly lessons on the laws of health was given to a class of ladies by Miss Catharine Johnstone, at Westbourne Terrace, in the spring of this year. class has been formed, under the superintendence of a medical gentleman, for practical instruction in Ling's system of educational gymnastics, and in the laws of health. This class is formed exclusively for female teachers in schools for the poor, to whom the instruction is gratuitous. The Committee feel assured that the introduction of this most perfect method of physical training into all schools would be an inestimable benefit, and they are now endeavoring to bring the subject under the notice of educators. Edwin Chadwick, Esq., has kindly promised his valuable co-operation in this part of the work. The following course of lectures on sanitary subjects has been delivered, by the kind permission of the Council on Education, in the Lecture Theatre of the South Kensington Museum: Lecture 1.-By the REV. JOHN ARMITSTEAD, Vicar of Sandbach. Industrial Employments in Girls' Schools." Lecture 2.-By DR. EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D., F.R.S. Defects and Medical Shortcomings." " On "On Sanitary Lecture 3.-By HENRY ROBERTS, ESQ., F.S.A. "On Healthy Dwellings, and prevailing Sanitary Defects in the Homes of the Working Classes." Lecture 4.-By ERNEST HART, Esq. "On Dress and Social Habits in relation to Deformity and Disease." Lecture 5.-By DR. WILLIAM FARR, M.D., F.R.S. "The Arithmetic of Life." A series of meetings and conversazioni for the purpose of discussing the means of bringing the Association's efforts to bear upon the London poor have been held in drawing-rooms and schoolrooms in Curzon Street, Mayfair; Kensington Gardens; Agar Town, Borough Road; St. Giles'; Kennington, and Stepney. Some of these meetings were attended exclusively by district visitors and other ladies working among the poor, others by the poor themselves. Addresses were delivered by a lady of the Committee. A lending library of books on all branches of Hygiène is now in course of formation at the Association's office. The few books which it already contains are eagerly borrowed. The Committee are now endeavoring further to utilize the office by making it a dépôt for all good books on the various branches of Public and Domestic Hygiène. No books are sold there but those approved by the editing committee, or other equally high authority. Thus, purchasers are directed to the best works on each subject. At the office the Committee have also commenced the formation of a collection of specimens and models of new inventions contributing to sanitary improvement. These articles are shown to visitors to the office, who are directed where to purchase them, and much 240 ANNUAL REPORT OF LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION. good has been thus 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 by Alexander Thomson, Esq., of Banchory. Two thousand copies of this lecture have been published by the Association for distribution throughout the city. The second lecture, on '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 aims, in the following ways: "1st. 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 Grinstead, Worthing, Arundel, and Petworth. "2nd. By holding Cottage Sanitary Meetings in some of the worst |