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    To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

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    their accusation maul ; sticks while would the same probabl fear y that also deter prevents them the from women confessing that retaining they had been deprived of them ; but the main fact of the case , viz b ., whether visit to

    women do or do not use the maul stick , might be ascertained y a any of the manufactories . * I amMadamfaithfull yours y

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    To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal , _"Wet-Ntteses and _Jjying-In _Institutions .

    The Madam subject , of the following correspondence being one of the greatest impersons the portance day who and I hope may interest be inquiring , will not onl allow y into to me mothers the to causes submit , but of this to many medical reall of the men vital social and all stion evils other to of

    the consideration , you of your readers , many of whom may render y valuable que aid in I che will cking just the enumerate baneful one custom or two referre facts d to which . may throw some light on the offeredThe hih rate

    of subj infant ect , and mortality may give is admitted more force to to be the a suggestions disgrace to a civilized . country g like who known our It own die is that , prematurel shame in the this to children enli the y g from htened mothers of the wet age effects - of nurses of the the of middle form world ignorance a and , very but and large it may neg classes proportion lect not . of be society generall of those to y

    have to a record that the Lying-in Institutions of London upper are actually besieged , temptation by applications to the for mothers wet-nurses of the , and working the large and poorer sums classes offered to prove this neglect vicarious a great their

    own infants , and their _> whole families , in order to undertake office . Bri If hton all L Institution ying-in Institutions set forth would below— follow viz"to the re excellent commend wet examp -nurses le of onl the y

    gas . being in cases ph of ysicall emergency y incapacitated where the for life her of a child natural is in duties danger , ) a , " wholesome ( its own mother check fashion of which has of late

    would soon be put on the practice , the " " years rendered it disgracefully and fatally prevalent I . amMadam

    , Yours , truly , Brighton , Feb . 10 . M . A . B . :

    " To the Secretary of the Brighton Lying-in Institution " L " ing As _" Sib in I understand Institution , that will a shortl meeting take of ' the lace Committee I beg to submit and Governors for their of con the

    reci sideration y pients - of the the desirability Charity are of recommended altering y that p to part , ladies of their who app plan ly b at y which the Insti the

    tution " The for practice wet-nurses of hiring . wet-nurses is fraught with so many evils , moral their and p influence hysical— on evils society which , that become for a very public pernicious Institution and of wide this -spreading nature to be in

    lain * ' an * In art the which Staffordshire they are potteries better qualified women to are practise largely emp than loyed men in . painting It will hardl porce y -

    becredited , but we can vouch for the fact , that such is the jealousy of the men that they , compel , the women to paint without sanction a this rest absurd for the act hand of , and the masters Female are

    obli _Industryf ged by their an excellent own workmen article in to the current number of the " injustice Edinburg . " h — . "

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/68/