Lecture on Baths and Washhouses: Addressed at the Request of the Worshipful the Mayor and Corporation, to the Inhabitants of Gateshead (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The circumstances under which the following Lecture was delivered, will be best described in the words by which a brief and condensed report of its substance was introduced in the Gateshead Observer of Saturday, October 13, 1855.

"The Washhouse and Laundry department of the corporate establishment in Oakwellgate (observed the Editor), has been less successful than the Baths; and the Baths, as is commonly the case everywhere, have been less frequented by the fair than the ruder sex. The Mayor, therefore, on the suggestion of Mr. Crawshay and Mr. Dingwall, recently brought before the Council a proposal that a lecture should be delivered, having for its object the encouragement of a more general use of an institution so important in connection with the public health and the peace and comfort of domestic life - Mr. Crawshay proposing that Mr. Charles Larkin should be the lecturer, and Mr. Dingwall that the lecture be supplied in print to every household in the borough. Mr. Larkin promptly acceded to the unanimous invitation of the Council, and Monday night, the 8th of October, was appointed for the delivery of the lecture. The hall of the Mechanics' Institute, the free use of which had been cheerfully granted for the occasion, was crowded - and the audience comprised a large number of the working classes. The chair was taken by the Mayor (R. W. Hodgson, Esq.), who had come all the way from Harrogate purposely to be present; and His Worship was supported by (besides other gentlemen) Aldermen Smith and Pearson, Councillors Crawshay, Hewitt, Dingwall, Cook, and Brinton, the Town-Clerk (Mr. Kenmir), and the Surveyor (Mr. Hall). Mr. Larkin, whose rising was the signal for a loud burst of applause, spoke as follows:" -

Mr. Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen, - What a piece of work is Man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an Angel!

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