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220 woman's work in sanitary reform.
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" I Conclude That All Our Endowments For...
weeping for the children " whom she has herself unwittingly slain . * i " own gnorant With conc regard , eit does ; to it not maternal is believe a very duties rare that she thing , we knows are to find generall all a about mother y far the too who management wise , however d in teach our
all of her a mother children needs . Womanl to know y . instincts When , it it can is sometimes be proved that argue there , are _, superfluities in God ' s creation , and that woman ' s reasoning faculties
not infantile are eminent before among p management . hysicians the Either number , who Drs , -wasted . we have Combe may written time , talk Conquest and of volumes stationery the , Bull sufficiency to , instruct in Besser making of , instinct women and " much other — in
ado about nothing , " or , there is much important sanitary knowledge loss which to every decide mother between oug these ht to alternative acquire . s Surel surel y no no one one can should be at rest a
; y a day mother without bring ht then ing her carefull decision to stud to bear the upon laws her of infantile practice . Every y y
oug health The , so first that thing she may which intelli needs gentl to y app be ly done them in in connection her own nursery with a . in
reform in the management of infants and children is , to obtain - telligent , well trained monthly nurses and nursery mother maids , _f and child
during A monthl the most y nurse try , ing whose and work critical it period is to tend of p a hysical life , ought certainlto be an educated sensible womanable intelligently , to
y , third co-operate of his with directions the medical and wilfull attendant y disobey , instead ing another of mistaking , as the igno one - them
rance to do . and " S prejudice erious and of important the present , " writes class of Dr nurses . Bull so , J often " are lead the duties for
which lish devolve women upon if all the who monthl undertake y nurse this ; and office well came would from it a be better educated Eng class , of society than they too often do . Ignorance and
coarseness of manners are unbearable in a nurse ; it is dangerous for the medical man to have such a person to carry out his measures ,
while who nevertheless she is certainl has y almost anything no but other a fit for companion two or three for weeks the patient . " "We ,
intelli must gent help ourselves women of and the each middle other classes in this who matter have . _* their Thousands bread to of
is * It is much worth hi _jr of her specia than l that remark of , adults that , although infants the are rate entirel of infant y exemp mortality t from
many over des very troy -wor of thousands k the , anxie fatal g ty , influences of " adult iden lives t to s b which y flood do not adults , and affect field are the , " subject and little ot . denizens Intemperance things of whic the h ,
cradle . Surely they would live and , thrive if well managed . _f The -mai substance dsis deri of most ved from of the a pamp following hlet on remarks " "Woman on monthl ' Work y , n " urses by Mrs and .
nursery W . Barnes , ( London , : Tweedie , 1859 , ) and another entitled , " AfewFriendly intosh Words , to and Young Hunt . Mothers , " by the same lady , ( London : Wertheim ,
Mac-% " Hints to Mothers , " 11 th Edition , p . 169 .
220 Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform.
220 woman ' s work in sanitary reform .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/4/
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