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    78 FACTOBX: WOMEN AND SERVANTS.

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    sat dered moaning mother * and and grandmother exclaiming" , while , a coup the le of visitors aunts , ran and a for _drojDper a tub -in in ,

    one direction , and a pail in another , and probably saved the child's life a sickl by giving bab it under a bath a . I have old seen sucking on board away a Th at ames the leg steamer of a ,

    minster in chicken typhus y , a relieved fever starved y , , picking by child cold year of at potatoes a seven salt , ; red who and herring looked have heard ; as while if she of in another had West no - ,

    strength , to digest bread and milk , , placed the summit of felicity in factory cold " But sausage ir simp lsbecause le for sanitary breakfast they knowled can ; or make , ge as is she doubl head expressed y if and they trebl it choose , y nece a polonoy s sary gain to s . t '

    some : of g the , evils which beset the poor . They , can clothe and , they can feed * in a wholesome mannerthey need not stint in soap ;

    and if they could be persuaded to ; set to work with a will in this direction , they might lay the foundation of improved habits for

    their class _> so that full advantage would be derived from any change in the development of trade which should free female

    industry _" Thus from in the its present short two heavy hours tax of upon evening life and instruction health . which the

    iiealthier be every technical , and or less more lesson directed disengaged in reading to their among , in own writing factory practical , in girls arithmeti needs can comm c and , should an the d ,

    more , teacher should possess the fullest comprehension of , and synrpathy with these . workthe

    . "Of the other duties involved in such missionary , visiting of the sick first presents itself , and demands a knowledge and power very far from common among even superior women there ;

    a knowledge not so much of nursing , —for except in rare eases ¦ can as of be the no sanitary leisure for laws ab which solute govern nursing health of the , and sick , of one the by simp one , ler

    medical remedies . ried " That out which in practic is taug e with ht in the the mothers school , to so the far girls as the must _resotirces be

    carof the poor allow . A woman in the position we are describing ' Not has the a day power passed of saving of all m the any m lives any in I to have the the course spent of at for the Halstead simp year le , .

    that medicine people and of advice all ages come did not with come descri Home ptions , lamentable complaints , and ; pathetic entreaties queer , which were attended to between nine and eleven in the morning . Some were

    sent to noted the doctor down , as and some licants supp for lied entrance from the to an chests hosp , and ital some app

    being functionary or institution done in should . London And possess or this other again an large intelli leads towns gent me for knowled to the observ relief ge of e of th what disease at the is , for atient

    and what practical steps to take to get admittance a p .

    78 Factobx: Women And Servants.

    78 _FACTOBX : WOMEN AND SERVANTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/6/