135:. Walker and her professional colleague Mona Wilson undertook the data gathering arrangements on behalf of the DSU's Social Enquiry Committee for these publications. The reports dealt with housing conditions, household income and expenditure, women's paid work, infant mortality and child health. Part one was an investigation based on the medical inspection of school children in School Board Schools which includes detailed tables (e.g., weights, heights, diseases and eyes). A second report dealt with housing and industrial conditions and the unusual circumstances in a city dominated by the
89:. Walker returned to Dundee and focused further on improving the lives of the city's poor through her work with the DSU, despite being offered wardenship of a new settlement by Octavia Hill. Walker adapted what she had learned in London under Hill's tutelage to fit Dundee's particular poverty concerns. By 1905, 40,000 people were employed in the
112:. There she trained in social work, with a view to bringing her experience back to Dundee. It was also at this time that Walker started wearing the grey habit of the order, clothing that she would wear for most of the rest of her life, and which she can be seen wearing in the only known photograph in existence of her.
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and carries on the work Walker started; the association's minutes are held by Dundee City
Archives. Walker's birthplace on Perth Road, Dundee, was also marked with a plaque in 2016. To mark the 100th anniversary of her death a four-day celebration of her life and legacy was held in the city. The
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Walker's interest in social reform was initiated upon joining the Dundee Social Union (DSU), a group formed in 1888 by a group of the university's professors to improve the quality of life of Dundee's poor, particularly housing and health. Initially she worked as a rent collector, engaging closely
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Mary Lily Walker died on the morning of 1 July 1913, in her bed in Grey Lodge, Dundee. Shortly before her death, she was attended by her doctor, Julia F. Pringle, who worked at the Dundee
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Infant mortality was recognised as a problem in Dundee and, under Walker's guidance, DSU opened a restaurant for working mothers was in the West Port in 1906. Mothers were supplied with nourishing meals and advice for the first three months of their child's life, providing they breast-fed their
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professional workers rather than relying on employees. To this end she persuaded the DSU to train workers in her house, Grey Lodge
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in the city; over three-quarters of these were women, and untold numbers children. It was from her work in
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Walker has been remembered with a plaque on Walker House at Grey Lodge
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Walker, Mary L.; Wilson, Mona (1905). "1. A General Report". Report on
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