Baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes.

  • Baly, Price Prichard.
Date:
1852
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obtained by the labours of the Committee, and so tend to remedy the evil which might otherwise result from the closing of the Committee Room. The Committee would particularly direct attention to the plans embodied in that Report, which have been designed with a full know- ledge of the requirements of such Establishments, the result of their Engineer’s practical connection with the constructing and working of several of the most important. Subscriptions, to enable the discharge of the outstanding debt of above £.2000, Avhich now hangs over the Goulston Square Establishment, but which has been incurred in promoting the general object for which the Committee was originally constituted,—that of “ promoting the “ establishment of Baths and Wash-houses for the labouring classes,”— and not for works or buildings, will be received by any member of the Committee, or by the Secretary, Mr. Woolcott, 14, Buckingham Street, Strand. The Committee cannot regard the existence of this debt without anxiety as to the future well-doing of the Establishment. The income from the Bathers and Washers, although sufficient to pay the current expenses and the interest on the debt, is not sufficient to enable the Committee to provide for the renewal of plant, which must be required in a few years ; and were they to lose the services of the present acting members of the Committee of Works, they would, probably, experience great difficulty in finding successors who would take on themselves the duty and responsibility of managing the Establishment. They therefore think it of the first importance that the debt should be so far reduced as to enable them to appropriate a portion of the income in forming a fund to meet contingencies. By order, GEORGE WOOLCOTT, Assistant-Secretary. Secretary’s Office, 14, Buckingham Street, Adelp'hi, November lsf, 1852.
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