CHAPTER VI.

PHILANTHROPIC AND MEDICAL WORK, 1840-1848.

Children's Employment Commission, Mines and Collieries. Improvement in the condition of women working therein. Report on Trades and Manufactures. Homes of eastern dispensary patients. "Sanatorium" founded. Letters from Charles Dickens. First model dwellings founded. Life at Highgate. My recollections of first "Health of Towns Association" Meeting. Feeling of public men 72