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[37] Evening Play Centres for Children, by Janet Penrose Trevelyan. Methuen & Co.
[39] Sir Robert Jones, F.R.C.S., Chairman of the Central Committee for the care of Cripples, wrote to Miss Ward after her mother’s death: “One of the last pieces of work accomplished by Mrs. Ward for cripples was the insertion of the P.D. clause in the Fisher Education Act, and the reports obtained for that purpose are largely the groundwork and origin of this Committee, in whose work she took a deep interest.”
[40] On October 23, 1919.
[41] Now named, after its founder, the Mary Ward Settlement.