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woman's work in sanitary reform. 227
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" I Conclude That All Our Endowments For...
of fiction could , magazine easilbe articles made a , medium and tracts for which the diffusion come from of thi woman s kind ' s
pen of informa , tion : y the Rev . Charles Kingsley and a-few others have the in alread the better y former shown for the class , to infusion some of writings extent of a , . new how Many element much of them . may The would be stereot thus be yped done decidedl tales even y
, in which the author , after dragging Walter and Evelina through a series of extravagant improbabilities , sends them off the stage into
the haven of matrimony , and lets the curtain fall , are getting exfema ceedin le gl writers y " stale make , flat , imag and inative unprofitable literature . " Now a vehicle , let more of p opu our lar
f sani or ever tary ins t sca truction tterin — g our tell h us opes why and preventable joys , and holdin disease g a gr and im carn death i-
val rema amon turel g our old in loved Mammon ones— ' s wh mill y — the wh young y the church workers yard are is ground so full
of p little graves y —and why the young mother ' s chair stands empty in the ingle nook . We wish to know these things . *
she mere W has l oman y to learned translate ' s presen from into t part the popular writings in sanitary language of medical literature , and men illus is trate mos distinct , t the of whom ; truths it is
, , unable through to their commun education icate t and heir frequent knowled stud in y of other scientific than books Latinised , are ge
, large technical class language of readers which . Leaving is unintelli the writings gible and of re female pulsive ph to ysician a very s out educa of tion the have question alrea , d women made without contributions regular to medical sanitary or literature scientific
which and will are a very lish encourag in thi y s dep ing artment earnest . of Miss what Catherine the female E . Beeeher pen may ' s ,
ment " Letters , " Mrs accomp on . Health Esther and Copley Happ ' s " iness Nurse , " - Mrs maid . _BarwelT " and _" Young s " Infant Mother Treat , " -
may be cited by way of illustration . This matter concerns not only women those who of the never higher achieve grades of thing literary more talent than , but an occasional also of the letter lower— or
article in some second-rate any newspaper or magazine—all may do something to dispel the gross ignorance of sanitary law which prevails .
( To he concluded in our next , )
fiction * Lest and our hilosop readers h should an impracticable think this suggestion onewe , would of a combination remind them between of the
profound Armstrong impression , p " the life y made of a factory many ye child ars . ago , Many by Mrs of Miss . _Trollop Sedgwick e _' s " Michael ' s tales in the introduction of adviceRihtl
considered scourged exhibit a tlie singular , the hero doom of felicity a 01 Greek ill health play , , and is a " doom Plague as , sanitary Pestilence terrible as , and any Ed . Famine that " g ever , y "
are but the culminating points of an unsanitary condition . — , E . W . J .
Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform. 227
woman ' s work in sanitary reform . 227
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/11/
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