... work a means of helping the tenants with counsel and sympathy—apian which has been successfully followed inLondonby Miss Octavia Hill and her assistants, and also in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The proposed dwellings will lx; very directly and specially under ...

... Girl Guides and youth associations in the district. explained the duties would be* following out fhe principles of the Octavia Hill system, had been verv successfully tried out many of the local authority housing estates England, and he had been informed ...

... Girl Guides and other youth associations in the district. explained the duties would be following C'Ut the principles the Octavia Hill system, which had been very successfully tried out many of the local authority housing estates in England and he had been ...

... years since the woman pioneer in this carcer, Miss Octavia Hill, with John Ruskin’s aid. initiated a movement for better housing, and which eventually led to the formation of what is known as the Octavia Hill system of‘ property management, it is only recently ...

... regularly eastward on stated days to hold classes, or to do social work in courts ‘8, sometimes on the lines laid down by Miss Octavia Hill. Then there are the agents of the benevolent societies; but the ion of these work of fighting with the social ile go in ...

... R. Phelps, Professor William Smart. the RAY. W. Russell Wakefiekl. Mrs. Pernard Oneamenet, Mrs. Sidney Webb. and Mies Octavia Hill. It is understood that the name of the secretary of the Commission will shortly be announced, and an early meeting arranged ...

... public decorations they are pleased to take for themselves and value so highly. Mrs. Garrett Anderson, Mrs. Fawcett, Miss Octavia Hill, Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. Creighton, Mrs. Sidney Webb, and many another, ought certainly to knighted, and made into Ladies least ...

... her resi- dence ‘in; or in the ‘neighbourhood of, London, in the eompany of.'a. well-known worker amongst the poor, Miss Octavia Hill, and often under the guidance and protection of the police, the Princess has been going into all eorts of dens of misery ...

... assisted in her honoarable labour by Mr Shaw-Lefevre, Mr Bcscawen Evelyn (in the unavoidable absence of his brother), Miss Octavia Hill, the Rev. Brooke- Lambert, Mr Norfolk, chairmanci the Greenwich District Board of Works, the Rev. G. Boggie, and other ...

... sympathy, women show a ready aptitude for this work. It was woman who first put the idea of management into pract i c e Octavia Hill; a pioneer social worker of the last century. She managed a London block of flats and trained other women to do the same ...

... on the Dwellings of the Poor. said that of all the modes of dealing with the evil of overcrowding that with the name of Octavia Hill commended imelf—he I • meant the method of doing what they could bit by bit to improve the buildings and condi. I of the ...

... POOB. For this purpose section lias keen formed similar to that so extensively carried amongst the poor of London by Mies Octavia Hill. A Housing has obtained the generous offer from a house proprietor of the control of property near the docks. It block ...