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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 423
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The Journal Of The Ivorhhouse Visiting S...
with twenty a fit years and , fell was down one da stairs _^ coming ; she inj out ured of her her hack room and when lost she the was entire seized use
incurable of one , side , and ; thoug consequentl h her senses y , of are course retained , ineli , gible she is for life a an will hel almshouse pless end , hed she . - has ridden There
was lent one to no her 'visit other b her a resource lad , no whom hooks hut the she ( except union told a her , and Bible onl there and comfort her Prayer had -book been ) but in ; looking the tracts no at y
Can a scri . one anything pture have y p the icture be heart y conceive , hang to refuse ing d more on the the dreary comfort wall and , and of sad a reading lad than visitor such the a to texts life such , and round as could she it ? . y
also _ISTear any a her cri is le one from who a worked falland for prostrate upwards in of her thirty bed . ye Then ars in there one emp is one loyment eighty , pp , her minister till the time
of gularl years ker y of entering to age attend , who the , was and union visited she is ; unabl now and attended e she to read never . b lo y hears The good other the house service old woman she unsuccessful used to whom
re-I at allude several d , elections who had kept and finall a most became respectable too weak dging and - infirm , was to be admitted so that in both these , cases there y is tlie bitterness of disappointment to add to , for such of diet
probabl ma the nagement hardness fellow , of but their I parishioner do lot ask . for I do and that not acquaintance allevi ask ation and any mi sy great ht mpath bestow changes y which a visitor or ,
y a - , g " A . Yisitos . " THE _WOllKHOTTSE A HOME FOB . _INCURABLES .
inmates " Few there persons are are in the aware metropolitan that out of workhouses the whole alone number upwards of w of rkhouse 50 , 000
sick persons , . We have hardly yet begun lace for to those look upon who cannot the workhouse be t in in
hosp this itals light , , and as a therefore home and , if last they resting have -p no homes where they can be kep nursed the union workhouse
visited infirmary and tended . , Perhap must helto end s enli the their following hten days those in cases who the wards out cannot of of numbers learn the which truth or from have their been may p g
own experience , . " The length of time during to find which hopeless who cases have linger on ei is ht surprising nine .
eleven It is no uncommon in one thing wardor in bed persons and out of one spent ward g containing , , or twenty- years four infirm women , twelve had ; no relations or friends to visit or
assist them . , blind "A . has From been disease in bed of for the _Rve ine years he , and cannot for raise the last himself three in has bed been and quite is sp ,
wholl . y dependent on the care of the nurse . He had worked hard up to the " relation time when he friend was compelled visits him to except give up lad and go visitor into the of whose sick ward kindness . No
or a y , , lessness especially he in suffers reading constant to him pain , he from speak rheumatism s with grati . tude * Besides his helj ) -
the the ' _xinion hosp In the , itals next In for walking ward fourteen is with one months with crutches a , broken and lie then sli leg pped discharged , for and which broke uncured he his was other , in to one enter leg of
. , and is now unable to leave the ward . does " Near not know him is what a man they quite should blind all , and do but almost for always one kind in man bed . ( also He say in bed s he )
who reads aloud to them . " B . in the same wardhas not left his bed for eleven years . Many others , liave been two or three , years in . a hopeless state , from paralysis or
rheumatism . " In award for womenC . has has "been in bed for three years in a state bed of constant which is suffering kindly , allowed which , seems her . to A be few only lozenges rendered occasionall tolerable y by given a water her - hts when she seldom She is
relieve entirely aer help thirst less and during dependent the long upon ni the g nurse , and has no relation sleeps to . visit her .
Notices Of Books. 423
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 423
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/63/
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