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140 BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
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Books Op The Month. The Medical Professi...
disorderl annoy able , resorts ing to house come to tli . e in But public after it - a house should hard . day be No 's remembered work doubt , to it is an that depressing uncomfortable the wife and ' s ,
hard depressing day y ' s atmosp work has here been , the done direct in the influence midst of of which this unwholesome is resist to make this ,
pervading her weak , influence languid , requires and consequentl an unusual y careless amount . of To courage ht and not and while we admire the few who overcomewe
to energy be too , severe upon the many who succumb . The , "writer oug of this Essay ives an anecdote which be taken as a reductio ad
absurdum g of the j ) opular theories may concerning feminine seclusion . " We can do no more , " once said a hard-working * and clean-looking
woman , " than keep clean what we have . "We cannot get our landlord to give us more air , or to make the windows open The .
Women , he says , are best shut up ! " Under tjie heading , [ Remedy , useful information is given as to the various measures which have been taken by societies and individuals for improving
existing cottages , and erecting new ones on sound principles . We strongly recommend this little book as a reasonable and judicious
statement of facts , in which readers of all classes are seriously concerned .
Dr . Ladd , of Brixton , has published a pamphlet , _* in which he bstatistics that the poor inhabitants of the Surrey side of
the proves Thames y , when suffering from diseases of the lungs , are under peculiar and most distressing disabilities . The preponderance of
those ailments above all others , he attests by a formidable array of figures . His tables , based upon the reports of the
Registrar-General and of the Statistical Society , give us the important informationthat of the deaths from various causes in all England ,
, more than one quarter are from diseases of the respiratory organs ; and that in South London alone , the mortality from consumption ,
only one of this class of sicknesses , is equal to that from fifteen other ordinary diseases . " This awful statement speaks for itself "
, Dr . Ladd remarks ; and goes on to show , that to offer any relief in this deplorable caseit is absolutely necessary to provide special
hospital accommodation , in the locality so miserably afflicted . He argues that the medical treatment at present afforded to
the London poor does not reach the persons for whom he pleads . The general hospitals , dispensaries , infirmaries , and asylums , with
ments institutions all the of good this , established they large do , bod and for y it of the is pulmonary immense benefit of , sufferers such cannot patients meet ; nor , the do afford the require them four - -
what they want . These latter valuable resources are all situated ter London * Row The : Consumptive E A . . C M . . Pigott Poor , 39 , of Kennington South London Park . Corner By Theodore , S ., and E . 3 Ladd , Paternos , M . D - _»
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140 Books Of The Month.
140 BOOKS OF THE MONTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/68/
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