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(now historical) An alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony..
Elections as wardmaster or commissioner on the council were open to all ethnicities but not to all classes, or to women.
Well, I have been talking with Lawrence Worster, my Surgeon-in-Charge, who is a very good fellow. His sick-list is not bad now, and he does not mean to have it bad; but he says that he is not pleased with the ways of his ward-masters; and it was his suggestion, not mine, mark you, that I should see if one or two of the Sanitary women would not come as far as this to make things decent.
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Wardmaster means (now historical) An alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony..
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Elections as wardmaster or commissioner on the council were open to all ethnicities but not to all classes, or to women.
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