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Welfare Centres. Students reside at St. Katharine's College and attend
the lectures at King's College for Women.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) KATHARINE S. MACQUEEN.
The Public Health and Housing Committee through the Council
desired to express to H.M. Queen Alexandra, and the Chapter
and Principal of the College, gratification at the increasing activities
of the College, and appreciation of the valuable work which it is
accomplishing in the conservation of infant life in the Borough, and
recommended the Council that letters, expressing the Council's appreciation,
be forwarded to H.M. Queen Alexandra and the Chapter and
Principal of St. Katharine's College.
The following reply was received to the letter addressed by order
of the Council to H.M. Queen Alexandra, expressing gratification at the
increasing activities of the Royal College of St. Katharine and appreciation
of the valuable work it is accomplishing in the conservation of infant
life in the Borough.
" Marlborough House, Pall Mall,
29th January, 1917.
Sir,
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th instant,
which I have submitted to Queen Alexandra.
I am desired by Her Majesty to ask you to be good enough to
convey to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, Her
Majesty's best thanks for their kind appreciation of the work which is
being carried on in the Borough by the Royal College of St. Katharine.
Her Majesty rejoices in the fact that it has been found possible
to extend the sphere of operations, and she sincerely trusts that, with
your Council's continued co-operation and support, the all important
and invaluable work of the College in connection with the welfare of
Infants may steadily increase and prosper.
Her Majesty feels that the success which has been achieved by
St. Katharine's College is mainly due to the untiring energy and devotion
to duty of Miss MacQueen, the Principal, and her Lady Health Visitors,
and the unselfish and able help and advice of Dr. Harold Waller,
I am, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
HENRY STREATFIELD,
Colonel.
Private Secretary to H.M. Queen Alexandra.
J. Buteux Skeggs, Esq."