Report to the superintendents and visitors of sections in the recent Sanitary Visitation Movement, with suggestions as to a permanent scheme : also, proceedings of public meeting, and appendix of relative documents / submitted by Dr. Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Report to the superintendents and visitors of sections in the recent Sanitary Visitation Movement, with suggestions as to a permanent scheme : also, proceedings of public meeting, and appendix of relative documents / submitted by Dr. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    us cordial and goo'd assistance in tlic temporary Visitation Scheme:— ■ As stated in my last, I have no doubt much good might * be expected from the establishment of a permanent staff of . Visitors. Still, I must confess, I do not see very well how ( such a staff can be kept up. The operations of the past four or five months were understood from the first to be only temporary; and the knowledge of that fact, I believe, con- , tributed to some extent to secure success for the movement. To ask many of the Visitors to undertake the same duty for , a permanency, will, I fear, be to ask more than they can well afford to give. Many of them have their hands already pretty well filled with congregational work in their respective churches; and, however willing to aid the movement, could not give the time needful for carrying it on. I only state this to show my mind in the matter: not as reasons why nothing ought to be attempted. If it is decided to go on, I will be ready to lay it before our Congregational Visitors, and report the result if desired. It is right to state that this very valuable communication —valuable for its perfect candour and good faith, and from its presenting views that might have been overlooked had they not found a voice in the writer—is from the eastern quarter of the city, where the largest proportion of the Visitors has been drawn from the working-classes, and where, accordingly, • the difficulties of finding persons who could give the necessary • time to the work were at the highest point. No one will for ' a moment suppose that there has been any want of sympathy with the object proposed, either on the part of the writer of this letter, or of those whom he represents; on the contrary, I am fully persuaded that the same spirit has reigned through- out all the Sections. But in this particular department of the work, it must be admitted that the practical difficulties have been much greater than elsewhere; and this fact ought not to be lost sight of in any proposal for a general and united effort towards a permanent Visitation. The official Report from Section VII., which embraces Cam- lachie and Parkhead, London Road and Dalmarnock Road, to the Eastern Boundary, Bridgcton, Mile-End, and the Eastern