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ALL SAINTS' HOME. 267
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A . __ For Many Years Past The Nursing A...
instructed in the various kinds of household work , and if any show an apti-In tude fant for nursery teaching , which -, they tlie are trained Sisters to hav be e lat schoolmistresses ely considerabl . y enlarged There is , also where an
children mothers , for who the have day . to There go out is also and an work Industri for their al School living , in , may which leave all kinds their dertake of plain needlework Fancy and Ecclesiastical are done ; and work the Sisters at the customary themselves charges are read — y and to also
unilluminate texts , markers , & c . , , " Attached to the Home is a Pharmacy , where medicines are dispensed by the Sisters to the sick and needy , under the kind supervision of able and
experienced Physicians , who regularly visit the Institution and give their services " A Mortuary gratuitousl Chapel y . has also been added for the reception of the dead
previous to burial : this is available to all who may apply : an incalculable boon in a thickly populated district , where even the living are too much crowded together for health and cleanliness .
Sisters " The are Institution lad to call depends at the entirel houses y on of voluntary the rich gifts for and their offe broken rings ; victuals and the whenever they g have permission to do so . This has been a very fruitful ,
means of support , especially in what is called the London season , when the families are in town . " han At s thi forty s present serving time irls the and Institution seventeen consists incurables of ten making old women altogether , thirty-two
including orp , the Sisters and g others , who help in the work , , a family of upwards , of a hundred : and since its _beginning many more persons have passed through it , deriving * more or less benefit _rroni its charity .
they " The can Sisters send from have time latel to y time taken such a small of the house inmates at Harlow as may , in require Essex , country whither air . This Convalescent Home , though adding greatly to the expenses of the
work " There , is yet are almost associated indispensable with the . Sisters some ladies living in the world , who are called ' Outer Sisters . ' They give assistance others how b and when b th needle ey can
— work some , or b b y y pers finding onal p attendance laces for the in serving the house girls , , but all y b money y their , or prayers y . - ing on A very of so large vast sum a work , as ; may the be expenses imagined , for , is instance annuall , y attending needed for the the prop carry er
necessaril care of the y v sick ery gr and eat the . The dying Chap , and lain the would additional therefore house wish to at commend Harlow , the are All able to Saints ive ' bidding Home most them earnestl to rememb y to the er the Christi words an of charity the Lord of all Jesus who how are
g , , wonderfull He said , ' y It prospered is more blessed the Institution to give . than May to . He receive continue . ' God to vouchsafe has hitherto His their blessing abundance on the work to these , and Sisters put it of into the the Poor hearts for Jesus of the ' sake faithful . to give of
and " Give then alms the Face of th of y goods the L , ord and shall never not turn be turned thy face aw from from any thee poor . man : ay « W . UPTON RICHARDS ,
" November 1860 . " " Chaplain . , Tlie Superior has latelissued the following regulations
regarding the nurses to be emp y loyed "by her , which we give at length on account of their practical utility , as a guide to those who may
wish to apply for such situations under the sisterhood :-r" Women in hositals of a superior and for private class received nursing to in the be trained families for of the nursing rich the sick
poor " Applications p , to be made to the Mother Superior of All Saints' Home . , 82 , Margaret Street , Cavendish Square , W . ' IT 2
All Saints' Home. 267
ALL SAINTS' HOME . 267
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/51/
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