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OPEN COUNCIL. 68
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To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
¦ sooner impression the obnoxious on his hearers sisters . " are the got maj rid ority of the of whom better . " are I of recall opinion these that uncivil the
wordsbecause the precise terms have probably escaped the memory of your . readers , while the impression remains . In referring , to Mrs . Jameson's little book , I find she says as follows : —
u Charity When I there was . at The Vienna beg , inning I saw a had small been hosp very ital modest belonging , two to of the the Sisters sisters of h which aving had settled in a small of old being house adapted . * * to its * purpose * * The was onl the y infirmary new part
any appearance , in There which were were 50 52 sisters patients of whom —26 men one- and half 26 were women employed , besides in the 9 beds house for cholera and the . other half were going , their rounds among the pooror nursing the , sick in
, the elements privat irit e houses , which on a . small anim * scale ated * . , * it of . an * I saw Eng * at lish In Vienna fact workhouse , under another ; this but excellent very roof , different we hosp had ital was the for
women sp aloneof which the whole administration and support rested with the ladies of the , order of St . Elizabeth . * * * * * At the time I visited about 20 of choleraThere 16
itit contained 92 patients ; were cases . were was beds uperior , excellentl in tol each d me war y th arranged d at , over they , which was have entirel always 2 sisters y 3 managed or presided more sisters b . y . The 2 of preparing dispensary the ladies for , . which their The
-s profession cipally of , medicinal under tlie and best kitchen apothecaries herbs . ; Nothin and there g could was a exceed large garden the puri , prin ty of - ' —
the great air civil , and hosp the ital cleanliness at Vienna , order —one , and of the quiet largest everywhere I have apparent ever seen . , In larger the even than the Hotel Dieu at Paris—I found that the Sisters of Charity were
about to be introduced . One of my friends there , a distinguished naturalist the and want philosop of intelligence her , as well in as the physician paid female , told me nurses that , had the disorderl induced y him habits to j and oin
it wit was h his at colleagues first rather in inviting against the their co- will operation . In of the the Hosp relig ital ious of sisters St . John , thoug , at h Salsburgh , the same change had been found necessary . " In another part of
the management book , Mrs under . Jameson Sisters gives , which an elaborate well deserves descri perusal ption of . the Austrian prison were Speaking in of opposition Piedmont , she to the says Sisters that " a great loyed number in the of hosp medical itals students and on
inquiryI open found that this opposition arose emp from various causes . In ; the first place , it , was generally allowed that there is a great medical laxity students of morals at — Turin I might
elsewhere give it a harder and that name the —prevalent influence among of these the reliious womenthe strict order , as , g ,
_nnd surveillance exercised and enforced by them wherever they ruled , is in the Mrs hig . hest Jameson degree then distasteful alludes to to the those influence young men of political . " liberalism ; and the
idea and lastl on the y , part a jealousy of the students of the sm th al at l the dispensaries Sisters formed and p infirmaries art of the old which regime the / Sisters had of their own , for the poor and for children , the open plea ill being .
" pounde not th d at , or their that infirm any mistakes aries were had ill-served occurred , or from that the ignorance medicines or were unskilfulness -com- , but that this small medical practice , unpaid and beneficent , ' took the bread
magnificent out 1848 succeeded the men hosp ' s in ital mouths getting at Sienna . '" the In Sisters , I another found expelled th place at the ; , Mrs but medical . after Jameson a students few say months s , " had In they , the in
were , obliged to be recalled . In their absence the internal economy of the hosp In ital this had lecture fallen the into reader almost will careless find the ruin question . " of religious superintendence
d en hosp cy a itals mong members penitentiaries of the Chu thoroug rch of hly Eng discussed land to ; avai and l the themselves increasing of such ten-
Open Council. 68
OPEN COUNCIL . 68
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/63/
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