Overcrowding and Sanitary Reform in Rural Areas
The piece urges stronger limits on cottage overcrowding and calls for practical water and sewerage improvements in villages. It argues for legal backing to prevent overcrowding, better water storage and filtration, improved sewerage, and adoption of the dry-earth system, plus sanitary education and clergy involvement to promote health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Scotland
Fordyce
Mr. Howard
Bailey Denton
Ltoward
Reform meet debates extending franchise amid heated divisions
A reform conference wrestled with expanding the borough franchise and electoral distribution. Miss Lydia Becker pressed women voting rights, while others argued for cautious steps and equal criteria for men and women. the vote ended in a narrow division and an adjournment.
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Sion
Bright
George Howell
Fielding
Manchester
Disraeli
House of Commons
Lydia Becker
Handel Cosham
G. M. Murphy
Powell
Bristol
Miss Miller
Electoral Reform Conference Opens at Freemasons Tavern
A reform conference chaired by J S Wright meets at Freemasons Tavern Great Queen Street with Sir John Bennett George Howell and others. The chair rebuts claims agitation is wasted and urges forward motion on electoral reform noting Birmingham and Tower Hamlets influence and calling existing arrangements unjust.
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The
Friends of Electoral Reform
Freemasons’ Tavern
Great Queen Street
J. S. Wright
Birmingham
Sir John Bennett
George Howell
George Potter
H. Broadhurst
Maxse
James Beal
Tower Hamlets
J. Burt
M P
Macdonald
M.P
A. Illingworth
James Ileywood
F.rs
TI. Hughes
Q.C
Noble
Non-Collegiate Cambridge Students Grow in Numbers and Activity
Cambridge sees rising non collegiate enrollment with over seventy students including sixty five undergraduates and twenty one freshmen. A new library funded by University and alumni, three Clothworkers exhibitions valued at fifty pounds each, and a boat club illustrate growing activity as examinations begin for one exhibition on January 14 1875 and provisions allow non residents to compete if they resume by Michaelmas term 1875.
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O’keeffe
Callan
Cambridge
Worshipful Company of Clothworkers
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