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388 THE WOIUOIOUSE VlSTTING SOCIETY.
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relief of what we may call unavoidable misfortune , and as long as every bers class of the society lowest occasionall class alone y is claim not s to the blame assistance for requiring of its more aid . fortunate
mem" , The chief aim of those who have considered the subject of workhouse other reform influences is to suggest that a reme impart dy for some the feeling present and state sympath of things into in the providing system .
It is not an alteration may of the system itself that is demanded y , but rather the introduction of the law of love into it . ****** cc The publications we have named , excepting one , are written by women ,
indications and though of they a growing are of interest small dimensions in the subject , they of may which be they taken treat as . strong Wothe of men the better , therefore better management management , may be said of of our to our have hosp workhouses itals first enlisted And , as in they public matter have sympath s alread conne y y cted in done behalf with for
. themselve of the women poor , s the to but sick work become , and a reformation the the aged means , . it of would In blessing so doing seem to , to they countless be especiall will not numbers y onl the y be mission . blest The
object of Mrs , . Jameson _' s book is to shew the necessity of men and women princi obeyed working ple together It is proved can scarcel in by the the be " success communion said to of be those the of institutions case labor in , " our and Eng in the which lish truth workhouses that of law this is
where . the one matron and y the pauper nurses are the sole representatives of , the If the the feminine failures theory and influence is a abuses true so one in especiall , our our institutions disregard y needed of in for it every the sufficientl institution establi y accounts shed for the b for poor law all . . poor y
Poor-law commissioners did not take this element into consideration in framing . -. b their y master new s system of workhouses of laws . that Ladies it is have against hitherto the law been that told they triump should hantl be y lated
_v nor admitted desired as the visitors help . of Boards women in of their guardians ungracious certainl task y . neither They contemp would be too which tender-hearted belonged , too to sympathizing men onlThese , or too and meddling such like and fears interfering have haunted with that the
minds of officialsand will continue y . to haunt themfor some time to come to the exclusion , of women from a large portion of , what may be considered , their here of workThe following remarks are made bMrs .
_proper sp . y wide Jameson exj _> , in erience the preface of charitable to her first institutions lecture , abroad on " Sisters enables of * Charity her to write , " and with her confidence on the subject . Speaking of the numerous letters she has received
on " the ' Surel subject it of is workhouses worth considering , she goes whether on to say the : administration of these y
institutions might not be . improved by the aid of kindly and intelligent women one sharing doubt with that the the overseers element of the task of disunited supervision from . * the * element * * Can of any power
independent and Christian that this love of must , must the of feminine in necessity the long sympathies be run the result become ? , where Since a hard it the is , masculine cold allowed , cruel on energy all machine hands acts ?
for that all we offices want institutions connected with for the the training sickthe of efficient indigent , " the sisters fallen of , charity and the " it for ignorant the purpose among to ? us that In , wh such there y should an would application not be our both parish of , good means workhouses and and funds be alread made y therefore _available at hand ,
appears me sense economy , it ought " The to onl recommend y step hitherto itself made to our in so thi -called s direction practical has men been . ' " appointment
thoug of committees h apparentl of y a lad small y visitors measure in in itself two , or is in three fact the instances introduction , and of this an ,
' I where ever entirel But -present ' what y are new we is - influence to prin wanted find ciple the , , , ' not whi say women s ch occasional Mrs may . trained Jameson in inspection time for , such i be is a developed ? works domestic Then as it , into these permanent may much , for be we aske good , and are d , .
388 The Woiuoiouse Vlstting Society.
388 THE _WOIUOIOUSE _VlSTTING SOCIETY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/28/
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