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PASSING EVENTS. 287
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benefit visitors to of the the house women , every who pains are has received been taken but not as far only as to possible render to medical exert poor
, creased upon The them numb as a it er good has of patients moral become influence seeking more widel . aid from known the . The Infirmary number has » attended steadily this iny
previous not year the has limited year been . mean nearl This s y number of 7 , 000 the , Infirm , showing however , an and would increase the small have of staff been about of much 2 h , 000 ysicians larger over con had any
nected with itrendered it impossible ary for it further to extend p the _sjjhere of its lications exertions from . , Thus in women the out for -door attendance department during alone confinement , the number has beeii of ap at
p poor least voidabl double refused the . number In this attended connexion , full it y may half be the interesting applicants to having state been the expe una - - y
Ph rience ysicians of the Infirm the ary with The regard little to the of value assistants of women so emp as loyed Visiting has
among poor . group have changed shown from such year an to amount year , but of the tact result kindness has been and invariabl conscientiousness y the same in ; their they
such dealings work with as to this convince class of those patients who , and , hav have e had exerted the opportunity so good an of influence observing in
p them lished As in b this y , well mentioned capacity -educated , in that women the a great Report physician amount of last s in of connexion usefulness a course with would public of lectures be charities accom on - .
These topics was connected lectureswhich with nursing were well was attended commenced both year in , b the nurses Pall at in the training Infirmary for . y
throug army-service h the earl at , the part different of the present city hospitals , and The b subjects y ladies , of were these continued lectures
y year . were Cleanliness as follows Pood : —On Car the e General of Hel Management less Patients of Observation Wards ; on of Ventil S ation toms ; ; ymp
to and report Precaution to ; Ph s ysician for ; ] _STurses ; Surg ; ical Moral p Dressings and Reli ; g Bandag ious Influence ing j P of ersonal _Nurses Habits . It will be of observed instruction that in these nursing topics they , when are of full value y discussed not onl , form to professional a complete
nurses course but also to , every woman who ; may be called on for such y service in her own famil , would y . As be all extremel these lectures lad of were the g assistance iven by volunteer of Physicians lecturers and , the of y g
managers ladies experienced in nursing , in order to arrange such a series for the ensuing of Health year and ; they the woul Physical d like Education to include of in the the Young course . Instruction Offers to deliver on the Care such
they lectures During hav will e the been be year w cordiall ell two trained y pup welcomed il in nurses their . have duties been and Freceived are now in activel the Institution y engaged ;
, in The nursing Students in the of city the . Infirmary , of whom three have been received during the yearhave enjoyed the usual facilities of seeing practice , both in the
Institution , and in other charities . . The experience of six years , during which successive groups of Students
have thus been admittedhas shown the managers very clearly that practical th opportunities erefore been alone set on are foot not , b sufficient the friends to of meet the work their to wants raise . a An fund effort for ob has - y
real taining fund estate in good the securi hands college ty of the a instruction interest body of to trustees for be women used , the to . princi It is pal proposed , a to thoroug be invested to h p course lace upon this of
medical lectures for , women in connexion with procure some well-established college . This would be the most economical means of securing a complete education nat _*
as the sum necessary to establish separate schools of a satisfactory ure , for women , would be much larger . education
A fixed rule will be established with regard to the preliminary
Passing Events. 287
PASSING EVENTS . 287
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/71/
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