Report on the condition of the poorer classes of Edinburgh and of their dwellings, neighbourhoods, and families : prepared by order of a public meeting of the inhabitants, held in the Council Chamber, under the presidency of The Right Honourable the Lord Provost, on the 15th April 1867, and adopted and ordered to be published, at a meeting held on the 28th of February 1868.
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Credit: Report on the condition of the poorer classes of Edinburgh and of their dwellings, neighbourhoods, and families : prepared by order of a public meeting of the inhabitants, held in the Council Chamber, under the presidency of The Right Honourable the Lord Provost, on the 15th April 1867, and adopted and ordered to be published, at a meeting held on the 28th of February 1868. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Public Charities of Edinburgh, and for other Pur- poses, held in the Council Chamber, on Friday, February 28, 1868, at One o'clock. The Eight Honourable the Lord Provost was called to the chair. Dr Alexander Wood, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on that subject, gave iu the Eeport on the Condition of the Poorer Classes in Edinburgh. It was moved by Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart., and se- conded by Charles Cowan, Esq., of Loganhouse, ' That the Report be approved of generally, and published, and that the Sub-Committee be discharged.' Which motion having been put to the Meeting, was un- animously approved of. Mr William Dickson, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on that subject, gave in the Report on the Amalgamation of Charities. It was moved by the Rev. Dr Maxwell Nicholson, ' That the Report be approved of generally, and published, and that the Sub-Committee be discharged.' The Rev. D. F. Sandford seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. It was moved by the Rev. W. H. Gray, ' That a Public Meeting be held within one month from this date, to bring the recommendations of the Committees prominently before the inhabitants of Edinburgh, and that the following gentlemen be appointed a Sub-Committee to make arrangements for said Meeting, viz., Dr Alexander Wood, David Dickson, Esq., Rev. Dr Begg, Rev. Dr Nicholson, Rev. George D. Cullen, Rev. D. F. Sandford, Councillor Colston, J. Coldstream, Esq., W.S.' Which motion having been seconded by Mr Archibald Gibson, C.A., was carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was, on the motion of the Right Rev. Bishop Strain, unanimously accorded to the Lord Provost for presiding. Extracted from the Minutes by James Colston, } Honry. John P. Coldstream, ] JointSecys.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2197150x_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
