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of One drink indirec for t tliein effect by of the reall nurses good , will hospital be unheard nursing - oug of ht enormities never to .
y by be forgotten what they . experience The poor would in the themselve Infirmary s be and taug thus ht how a blessin to nurse g of
untold value would be communicated to the , _hoiiseholds of the less favored classes
Here been the reall question . served will b naturall this institution y be asked ? how , —How far has far it have reall the y y y
poor remembered supplied gratuitous that there nursin are g ? two In classes giving the of what answer may , it be must called be in
fact gratuitous the poorest nursing . . There Some is of no those truer who charity do not than seem to families afford poor skilful are whose
means and patient are straitened attendance . , The in times professed of sickness intention , to of meeting such wants as these is common to this establishment and to the London
institutions . This is a sufficient reply to the objection that in the case before us , subscriptions have been obtained from the rich for the similar assist
purpose ance in has actual of been providing povert afforded nurses , without In the for first the any Report rich payment . But at again mention all , , to those was made who
of are strictly gratuitous y . assistance afforded express to the poor . From the third have been Report att ( en p . ded 5 ) I gratuitousl quote the following extending sentence over thirteen : —" Three weeks cases , in
addition to visits to poor people y made , by the nurses during £ he time of their residence in the home , and when their services have not orrect in
been stating required * that at elsewhere the close ; " of and the I current believe year I will am it will have quite be been found c iven that
more than thirty weeks of _siich attendance g durin Thus g the I think twelvemonths a case has . been made out for the continued support institu
which is afforded by subscriptions and donations . Still , the - tion and not will onl not s thoroug elf-supporting hly realise but its so idea far beyond till it is the self point -supporting of self- ,
important for supp the ort domestic as to to y be notice available every largel requisite step , y towards for for the thi twenty poor s position . nurses It is of interesting would self-support not and be ,
much increased for expense forty . At present the case stands thus for the three years which have elapsed since the opening of the Institution .
1855 . 1856 . 1857 . Noof nurses ( excluding probationers ) 6 10 18
Nurses Subscri . ' p recei tions p and ts donations . . £ £ 275 48 £ £ 275 125 £ 488 £ 62
sum In of the about present £ 600 year . * , the This nurses shows ' recei a pts satisfactory will probabl advance y reach the in is
the earnings of the Institution , and this side of the question donations * The reports and the of recei St . John pts were ' s House resi _^ ectivel show y a about similar £ 1100 history and . £ 800 In , 1856 in 1857 the about £ 600 and £ 1700 .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/25/
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