The 13th annual report of the Country Air Association has just been published, and no document of the kind which we have recently read deserves to have a wider circulation or a more earnest consideration on the part of those interested in benevolent and philanthropic endeavours. The association is intended to provide rest and fresh air for ailing members of the Dublin poor, and it managed last year to grant 367 applications for participation in the benefits it is enabled to confer. Even the wealthy require so much kindness and attention in their time of illness, so much of sympathy, and so many things which even in their case make demands on the patience and generosity of their friends that one can well understand what a sad and needful plight is that in which the sick poor find themselves. An admirable society with an excellent record, we hope its report will be widely read, and that it will obtain an ever-increasing measure of support.
The Irish Times, February 23rd, 1900.