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. -SS»- Women's Work,—how to find new in...
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Iii.—Liverpool Institution Fob, The Tbai...
III . —LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION FOB , THE _TBAININGAND EMPLOYMENT OF _NTTRSES . * BY THE EEY . J . S . _HOWSON , M . A ., Principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution .
. -Ss»- Women's Work,—How To Find New In...
. -SS » - Women ' s Work , —how to find new industrial employments for
women , how to make more use of tlieir taste and skill in the province of art , how to educate them more usefully for domestic duties ,
how to reap the full benefit of their willing * service in all the fields It of will chari _doiibtless ty , —this comprehensiv be discussed e subj b ect is much arin di the scussed meetings everywhere of this .
Associa If any tion thing , and * in , we the may whole confiden "world , year tly is say women y ye , not , ' without s work , i practical t is the nursin results g .
of the sick . What can our rough , and awkward hands , our clumsy solicitude , our restless impatience , accomplish for those who are suffering from accidents or disease ? And what can not be
accomthe p the lished pati testimony ent by the endurance of tact our and own , of tenderness woinen homes . ? , t " But he We good all what know sense are the , we the experienc to promptitude say of e and the ,
sick and their nurses , when we look beyond our domestic circles , and scrutinise society at large ? It would be a narrow interpretation of that great charter of woman ' s office in the worldviz . that she is " a
, ,, help meet for man , "—for great it is to render that tolerable , "which would otherwise be a burden too heavy to bear , —it would be a narrow
interpret Surely their ation scop to e limit is far the wider words . mer We el are y to now the speaking relation of onl m y arriage of sick- .
ness and its alleviations . But I am bold to say that not only ought the wife to be " a help meet" for her husband in his times of weakat
ness and suffering , but that woman , in the community large , blessed path ough t to and commission have organiza every tion facilit and y to , effec and do t , ever e verywhere y thin blin g that g and her training well to dischar that and ge work sym her
-, , , which But _, she what alone provision can do has . reallbeen made in England for the full
liberty and efficiency of those p y owers of relief which exist in what has been called " the feminine element of society ? " We are all in
some degree aware of the defects of our hospital nursing , and of the aggravations of trouble which are often experienced , not only in
the families of the poor but even in those of the wealthy , when to they enter are into visited the by details grievous of that sickness which . It no would one doubts be a waste . I find of time the
years whole ago matter in well Liverpool expressed . The in paper a paper is which headed was , " circulated Society for many the
Education of Nurses" and its contents are as follows : — " It has long been a subject of regret to those who are conversant
ciation * A paper for the read Promotion in the Health of Social Section Science at the , second meeting of the Asso-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/20/
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