[The Times: Search: "Wandsworth Common"].
[BNA: Buckmaster Battersea 1913]
[BNA: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1913]
[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1913]
WOMEN'S IMPERIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
At the annual meeting the president, Muriel Viscountess Helmsley, was present and took the chair. The association has a year of good work to report; its energies have been directed to improving the health of women and children, and new enterprises have been vigorously undertaken. Schools for Mothers have been started in Lambeth, North Kensington, and Tottenham, and a juvenile Health Crusade is enlisting children all over the kingdom as soldiers to fight the battle against disease.
At the meeting reference was made to the anti-tuberculosis play which was successfully produced at the Court Theatre in November.
The association has continued the caravan tours, which have proved successful in the past. Sussex was visited and certain places in Kent and Surrey.
The London Parks Caravan worked during the summer at Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common, and Tooting Common: the London County Council gives special permission for the van to take up its stand in the parks, and then a lecture is given which is illustrated by lantern-slides and cinematograph pictures thrown on a daylight screen which is hung on the side of the van.
During the year 310 lectures have been delivered under the auspices of 'the association, many of them illustrated by lantern slides and cinematograph films.
The treasurer's report was very satisfactory.
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Notes to follow up
THE WOMEN'S IMPERIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION AND THE CRUSADE AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.
BY R. MURRAY LESLIE, M.A., B.SC., M.D., M.R.C.P., Chairman of the Women's Imperial Health Association; Senior Physician, Prince of Wales Hospital; Physician to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London.
THE Women's Imperial Health Association has put the crusade against tuberculosis in the forefront of its energetic health campaign which is being conducted in London and throughout the provinces.
Numerous lectures have been and are being delivered in the Metropolis on "The Prevention of Consumption," illustrated not only by a splendid series of suitable lantern-slides, but by special cinematograph demonstrations. These have proved an extraordinary attraction...
British Journal of Tuberculosis, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 1911, Pages 114-117
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The First Imperial Health Congress
The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2637 (Jul. 15, 1911), pp. 120-122 (3 pages)
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"London Parks Van"
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[No mention of Wandsworth Common, but notice Elsie Duval ("Millicent Dean"). Also the descrtiptins of open air meetings - were Wandsworth Common's crowds as aggressive?]
Belfast News-Letter - Monday 14 April 1913
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Mrs. Pankhurst was released from prison on the morning of the 12th inst. The Suffragist leader, looking very pale and emaciated, was driven out of prison in closed carriage. Her destination was a mining house at Bays water. A doctor was brought the home by one of Pankhurst's friends in a taxicab. Her condition is described as being very grave."
The Press Association was officially informed on inquiry the Home Office that Mrs. Pankhurst had been released on license, with special conditions, and for limited period. copy of the license will be Laid the table the House of Commons to-day.
Mrs. Pankhurst was sentenced in London 3rd April to three years' penal servitude for inciting others to blow up Mr. Lloyd George's house Walton Heath. She has thus only served nine days of that term of imprisonment. It is understood that Mrs. Pankhurst has been for the whole of those nine days in prison without food. From the first she carried out her threat, uttered in court, to practise the hunger strike.
She has not been forcibly fed, but the prison authorities have made vain efforts tempt her appetite with attractive food. In view of her determination the usual prison diet has never been offered. Instead she has had placed before her daily in the cell a regular series of meals comprising such food she might be expected to eat were she free. first roast meat, chops, steaks, roast chicken, vegetables, and similar* foods were put before her.
Then, her strength declined, a diet more suited to an invalid was provided. Boiled chicken, eggs in various forms -wtard puddings, nourishing jellies, and various light foods were offered - all in vain. In spite of the most attractive cooking, which was specially undertaken, and in spite the appetising odours of the food placed before her, Mrs. Pankhurst remained hungry but unyielding. Tea, coffee, beef-tea, and water were offered her drink, but she would touch nothing but water, of which she partook freely.
THE CROYDON ARRESTS
Sentences of six weeks' imprisonment
Two young women wearing Suffragist badges, and giving the names of Phyllis Brady and Millicent Dean, were charged remand on the 12th inst. with being suspected persons, having been found at Mitcham with inflammables in their session. As they refused to give their correct names and addresses they were kepi in custody a week, during which period Brady was on hanger strike. When stopped, each woman was carrying a portmanteau containing paraffin, firelighters, candies, matches, cotton wool, and paper saturated with oil.
When questioned by a police officer, both prisoners ran away. Brady was overtaken and caught, and Dean was arrested at Croydon after having ridden there in a van. Brady still refused to give her name, saying that she was from the provinces, and publication of her identity might prevent her from obtaining employment. She was sentenced to six weeks in the second division.
The other prisoner volunteered her name and address, and revealed her identity as Elsie Duval, aged ?, 37, Park Road, Wandsworth. She also was sentenced to six weeks in the second division.
SUFFRAGIST MEETINGS BROKEN UP
The usual Sunday meetings of Suffragists in Hyde Park and on Hampstead Heath yesterday were again marked by disorderly scenes. Crowds refused the speakers hearing, and eventually the ladies were escorted away by police In the park a crowd of over ten thousand persons surrounded the cart which the Suffragists utilised a platform, and for an hour the small band of women persisted in their attempt to gain a hearing.
Showers of turf, orange peel, and other missiles fell around the first woman who attempted to address the gathering, and folding her arms she faced the crowd in silence. A volley of turf greeted her defiant action, and she was twice struck in the face by flying clods. Other women on the waggon displayed large hand-printed bills, and these were speedily riddled missiles, while several ugly rushes the cart were made
Finally mounted police conveyed the ladies and their vehicle out of the park, the Suffragists singing their war cry and the crowd responding with further volleys of turf.
At Hampstead the speakers' voices were drowned continuous singing, and after twenty minutes the police ordered the meeting to be closed. This announcement was received with cheers. youth was arrested for throwing a small wooden box at the speakers.
attempt to hold a meeting on Wimbledon Common met with no more success. After several rushes the crowd broke the police cordon, and the Suffragists were the centre of a howling throng. Police reinforcements were called up, and the ladies were escorted away.
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