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322 WOMAN'S .WORK IN SANITARY REFORM.
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( Continued From Page 227. J Those Women...
destruction—many from walking the earth with the invisible brand of Cain upon their brow . of
obedience We may to do the much Biblical to prove precep the ts reasonableness by showing that and advantage they are calculated for the welfare not onlof the soulbut of the body , for
y , offcen present to , as produce well as little future other happ result iness . than Reli to g repel ious instruction children from seems the is
loving too offcen Father presented to whom to them it is in intended " clouds to and , lead darkness them . , " The as a Deit terrible y
taskmaster , binding heavy burdens upon , and giving arbitrary c Parent ommands whose to , his all-embracing helpless creatures love shines , instead forth of in as every an one Universal of his
laws . In workhouses , many gross violations of the laws of health are
committed which the lady visitors might doubtless do much to preventif their attention was not so exclusively directed to the
, spiritual " "Workhouses state of , " the says inmates a medical . gentleman , " are the hot-beds the
condition of ricketty of and one scrofulous of the metropolitan disease . " workhouses In an account , it of is stated sanitary that
out of 1 , 089 inmates , 474 , or 43 * 5 per cent are afflicted with chronic old disease d 30 ; 7 of these cent , 9 children * 3 per cent under were fifteen infants 1 under proofs two
years of the want , an of sanitary * per supervision in workhouses . _* mig Many ht be cited . One ladlains of the tiht lacing which is practised in them
y compg through the ignorance and false economy of their managers . " In these establishments" writes this lad" the irls' stays are
provided each individual by contract has ; they to , be are fitted not to made them y , . to New fit g e -comers ach individual are laced , but up
ferent in the bone their strai fi ght-waistcoat be . s The of their w eaker predecessors must give , however way to dif the
gures may stronger ; the _staj _^ s being" generally the latter . The consequences are often serious , for , vanity being indigenous even to workhouses ,
of the the young boned , growing stays , girls increase not cont it by ent ti with ght the lacing unavoidable . " Many pressure a good
Board of Guardians sit in solemn conclave fruitlessly pondering that 66 Plow problem to dimmish which the seems Poor to Rate beat ? " everything Would that in there Euclid were hollow some :
sensible women to tell them not to waste the parish money on the certain means of deformity and disease ! Another lady states " that
after a visit to a poor bedridden inmate of one of the London workhouses , she was so completely colonized by tribes of insects
unmentionable , that she was compelled to go to her medical attendant Such for some violations means of destroy of the ing laws them of . health . would doubtless be gross
to a great extent prevented , if every lady who visits a workhouse * " « A i . phoristic London Notes : Groombrid on Sanita . ry Statistics of Workhouses , " _Tby Dr . Roth ; page ge
322 Woman's .Work In Sanitary Reform.
322 WOMAN ' S . WORK IN SANITARY REFORM .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/34/
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