Miss Nettie Adler, daughter of the late Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herman Adler, one of the best known social welfare workers in London, failed to secure re-election to the London County Council in the elections which took place yesterday, being defeated in Central Hackney, a largely Jewish district, by the Municipal Reform candidate, Mr. Moustardier. Miss Adler has been a member of the London County Council for Central Hackney for over 20 years since 1910, with a break between 1925 and 1928. In 1922-23 she was Deputy Chairman of the Council. She began her social work as a school manager under the London School Board and was co-opted in 1905 as a member of the London Education Committee. She has taken a very active part in juvenile employment work, in health work, in children’s and women’s wage-earning work, in the children’s courts, trade schools, reformatory and industrial schools, etc., as well as in various Jewish activities, such as the Jewish Religious Education Board, the Anglo-Jewish Association, etc.
The Jews elected to the new Council are Sir Percy Simmons, Sir Cecil Levita, Mr. Clavering and Mr. S. Gluckstein (Municipal Reform), Mr. Harry Day, M.P., Mr. L. Silkin, Mr. M. H. Davis, Mayor of Stepney, Mr. D. Frankel, Mr. H. Lazarus, and Dr. Jeger (Labour), and Mrs. Nathan, Miss Ida Samuel and Mr. Precy A. Harris, M.P. (Liberal).
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