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27 EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS.
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This Is Not To Be A Paper On Emigration....
canvas _Tbottoms to the berths substituted for the old wood and mattrasses , the food provided if coarse , is at least plentiful , and every
care is exercised to keep all parts of the vessel clean and healthy . When we carefully consider the numbers and the of condition the of the
passengers carried in such a ship , -when we think conflicting sented interests , — , -for the Irish mixture , German of sexes , and and Welsh ages are , the constantl different y sailing nations together repre- ,
— cised we over naturall so heterogeneous y proceed to inquire a conglomeration what amount , and of what disci t each p care line other is is taken exer It
that is than clearl these those y impossible masses arduous do duties that not morall which captain y are fester and especiall crew and y can corrup and perform emphaticall any y other . their
perienced own Rather . Well more surgeon , besides than , " who cap ten tain is at and once crew "both it was , each sanitor the shi custom and p carries mag of istrate the an Emi . " ex - - years ago
hosp gration ital . Commissioners perambulations , , to who procure either some intended young to student proceed not of fresh to nature one from of
the colonies and settle there , or whose abilities were a utter to provide worthlessness a position of in these the mother students country too many : of the disgraceful incapacit revela y and
tions have from time to time been made for any doubt to be felt on the commissioner subject . s To aware their of credit the be inefficiency it recorded of , that their no medical sooner were officers the ,
than care was at once taken to extend the appointments and to make it a regular service . The consequence of which is that several of
these gentlemen have been in the service four , six , and ten years . During this past year only two new men have offered themselves
for vacant posts , whereupon an increase of payment lias been offered to induce others to undertake the duties . To use the words of the
perienced satisfactory commissioners and to , find reliable " The that men importance the can advantages scarcel of securing y held be exaggerated out the have services been , and sufficient of it ex is
-, what for that under purpose . sanction Those advantages in the past have year even by raising been extended - the maximum
someto be obtained your by a surgeon for additional voyages , to twenty shillings instead of sixteen shillings a head . Although not many surgeons
probably , may attain to this maximum , which would not be reached till after a tenth voyage , yet the possibility of doing so may
contribute to retain some of the younger officers , who would otherwise , as years passed on , be disposed to quit our service for more
pertrons man " ent Second appointed emp to loyment the over surgeons . the in sing maintain le women ing . disci The pline appointment , are the ma of
matrons has formed an essential part of our system since our resumption of the conduct of emigration in 1846 . In 1849 , the society
formed for the assistance of female emigrants , and entitled ' The British Ladies' Female Emigration . Society , ' offered us their aid in
the selection of matrons . Since that time matrons have been ap-
27 Emigrant-Ship Matrons.
27 EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/27/
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