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woman's woek in sanitary reform, 219
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" I Conclude That All Our Endowments For...
mismanagement of their female heads , would fill a volume . Let those who doubtcarefullread _oyer any good treatise on the
preservation of health , , and y compare its teachings with the general domestic practice . A few only of the most common domestic
violations of the laws of health can here be considered . Foremost , perhaps , may be placed the use of unsuitable and badly
cooked food . In choosing our food and mode of cookery , we regard palate and length of purse ; but through our ignorance , the choice
is generally more or less in violation of the laws of health , and we the penalty in a host of digestive disorders . Whatever grand
sc pay hemes of public sanitary reform may be carried out , England will never be a healthy nation till English housewives study the science
of health , and bring it to bear upon the choice and preparation of food . * Though there is not always need for the mistress of a
household herself to prepare the meals , she should certainly have knowledge which would enable her always to order such food and
methods of cookery as are suited to the season , and to the particular constitution , occupation , and state of health of each member of her
family . This subject is really a most important one , for not only physical , but mental and moral health , are , to a great extent ,
dependent on so material a thing as dinner . In the nursery , our ignorant violations of the laws of health are
still more numerous and mischievous- The rate of infant mortality among our and other civilized communities , is something
unparalleled in all creation . Out of every hundred of our little ones , thirty are cut down ,
" An unripe harvest for the scythe of Death , " before five summer's suns have shone upon themand a great part
, of the remainder grow up weak and sickly . No other creature perishes and suffers thus—we do not find the eaglet dead in its aerie ,
or the young wolf moaning with pain in its lair . Among all the inferior animals health and long life are the rule ; while with the
offspring of civilized humanity , the capital of creation ' s pillar , they are the exception . Over some great causes of infant mortality and
disease , most women have little control ; in large towns thousands of infants fade awaylike blighted flowersfor want of pure air ,
lihtand sunshineothers , come into the world , with the seal of death g , already on their , brow through hereditary influences , and others
suffer or die for want of the necessary food and care which poor mothers working at a distance from home cannot give , but in very
many instances the principal causes of the death of children are maternal ignorance and mismanagement : on all sides " Hachel sits
mittee * A " of School ladies of t Cookery 90 Albany " is Street established Regent under ' s Park the direction " The object of a of com this
_school Girls are is , receive to teac , d h as correc boarders , t princi and ples instruction , of cookery is and iven . househol to dail d economy ils ' . " . gy pup
—See _vol Prospectus . in . . , n 2
Woman's Woek In Sanitary Reform, 219
woman ' s woek in sanitary reform , 219
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/3/
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