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    422 , NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    The Victoria Magazine. No. IX. Emily ITa...

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    Notes On Hospitals. By Florence Nighting...

    authority . As instances of the evils attendant on the mentions management " letting ' being- a entirel patient y in die the of hands a bed of -sor _" reli _^ because gious / ' the she

    ¦ the nurs assembles e leaving may , in spread the sole wards charge the dressing at of ni subordinates ght for , or it but when ; mus " and the t " not in 6 coramunit Protestant look at it y ; '

    orders , more , often than in Catholic ones , " a constant change of occupation of each member of the orderfor the sake of

    detaching said member from earthly things , " , a change sadly perplexing to doctors and disturbing to patients . It is quite

    intelligible that , as the authoress observes , orders , whether _v rude Koman curb Catholic of public or opinion Protes or tant by , the unless perpetual held rub in check and collision by the

    with the secular authority of the hospital , are inclined to make into a special object the spiritual ( often fancied ) good

    of inmates their of members the hosp , ital and ( for not whom the gen nevertheless eral and real the good hospital of was the

    intended , and not for working out , the salvation , of the order . " ) As a summary conclusion , Miss Nightingale pronounces that ,

    u Take it which way you will , the idea of the ' religious order ' is always more or less to prep life are the sick for death ; of the

    be secular according , to restore ly . There them will for be instances . And of their physical nursing neg will lect ( though generally unintentional ) on the part of the former

    of moral neglect on that of the latter . Unite the two and there ,

    will be fewer of either . "

    422 , Notices Of Books.

    422 , NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    The Victoria Magazine. No. Ix. Emily Ita...

    The Victoria Magazine . No . IX . Emily _ITaithfull . An article on " The Difficulties of Domestic Service" in this

    No . of the Victoriameets the objection so often raised , when aid is asked for , class of distressed women— " Why don ' t

    any they be go the to service laints ?"—by about pointing servants out it th is at not however an increase common in comp

    their may number that is neededsince all , who require a domestic are sure now to find one of , some sort to fill the place they

    situations offer . That they so take many the are writer ill-qu traces alified , in to great fulfil measure the duties , to their the

    luxuriousness employers ; the love faults of disp most l commonl untruthfulness y found & in c . domes being tics often

    an reform exact , reflection therefore , , of must those ci of ay beg , their in masters at the and top , . mistresses " As regards ; and

    cellent improvement distinguished practical from in what suggestion their may moral be is qualifications called offered their that , the business instead very , ex as of

    attempting to train girls en masse in Institutions , , , where the arrangements must differ greatly from those of private houses ,

    philanthropists should take individual girls into their own

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/62/