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78 THE LADIES' SANITABY ASSOCIATION,
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to the nation , since it is not tiie death alone of able-bodied citizens which is to be apprehendedbut the "wasting sickness or frequent
illness the bedridden which cri casts le the often lowest a , hel class less upon burden the to p the arish workhouse , and renders for
ppp many asks long _" Who * years shall . estimate Mr . _Ivingsley the value , speaking of life " of destroyed unhealth , y the cottages cost of ,
wive , s nlade widows , children orphans , parents childless , of domestic degraded morality and comfort . " destroyed ; And of a povert , population or not y and fostered . sickness at once , for act weakened want and of re , - domestic act diminished on each decency whose , other and
with a constant and complicated influence . A population savings have been absorbed by sickness has no reserved fund to meet the rainy day ; little by little the furniture finds its way to the the farmers
pawnthe broker clothes , and if of the the mill mill stop hand s , or or the of bad the harvest farm laborer ruins are sold for , breadAnd 6 i overtywhen it attains to a certain pitch , seems to
reduce . all other p predisposing , causes of disease to insignificance in comparison with its direful influence . Scanty , uncertain , and
innutritious food , insufficient clothing , squalor of person , incessant substitutes labor , sinking for beds of the the heart atmosp , cold here lod of gings their , filth dwellings y beds confined , or harsh for
, the sake of warmth , and poisoned by too many breaths or polluted by noxious exhalations , —these hold the vital functions remote influences too rigidl of y
climate and cruell to be y in in any their appreciable gripe to permit degree the effective more for * good or for evil . " _^ Nor do the grievous of the reciprocal action of sickness
and poverty stop here consequences . Dr . Alison , in a paper on " The Effects of Povertand Privation " read before the Social Science Meeting
y clusion at Liverpool to which in last all October own , says observ , " ations I should and be experience concealing hav a e con led - my
me , and of the truth of which I am firmly convinced , if I did not causes distinctl of y the avow ori my in belief of contag , that ious whatever fever may the be essential poverty and cause want or
are the most influential g causes of its prevalenc , e and extension materiall among the y aggravated laboring classes , whenever . " Epidemic and wherever disease " it is exists certainl , by y and the
co-operation of that specific poison with any such causes , bodily or mental , as are known to depress the vital energy in the different modes which be reasonably ascribed to destitution . " And be
it ever remembered may , oh ! anxious mother , that the track of an ep Contag idemic ious the does fever not visits , break when also off once with upon it unerring the has level fairl footstep y on started which the on it mansions first its rounds arose of .
the among neighbouring poor , rich ; and the burning heat which has consumed the little child in the cottage kitchen , will not fail to strike blank be
dismay into your curtained nursery . The small beds will soon empty nests ; the cradle will be put mournfully away , and the
pat-* Dr . Syms' Report on Ayr in Scotland .
78 The Ladies' Sanitaby Association,
78 THE LADIES' _SANITABY ASSOCIATION _,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/6/
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