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390 LOWELIi AISTB ITS OPERATIVES.
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restoration when sick . la . 1839 , they purchased a One edifice and its beautiful groundsat a cost of 20000 dollars , and converted
it into a hospital for , sick operatives , and , persons connected with the mills . It is pleasantly located on high land , _ajDart from the
noise and dust of the city ; and from the first has been under the the being charge countiy one of of Dr . the He . Oilm resides most an scientific Kimb at the all hosp , practition who ital has , and ers earned receives and skilful the his reputation surge salary on from s in of
the corporations . Boarding-house keepers are required to report to when the superintendent it is at once any examined ease of b illness y the the hosp mornin ital ph g ysician after it occurs and , if , '
, _pronounced contagious or infectious , the patient must be removed to the hospital , where the attendance of professional nurses ,
the best medical advice , and every possible comfort are provided . IFor all this a female is charged three dollars a week ; a male four ;
while the actual cost is fourteen for each patient . On recovery , the if ablepays the superintendent ; if not ableit is paid
h 4 y 500 the person dollars corporation , . There , . The is no annual better expense institution of the in establishment the country , , and is
it , is probably tlie only one of the kind in the world . Many eases reflecting the hihest credit upon all connected with it have come
within the personal g knowledge of the writer ; a notice of one of these will illustrate the generous humanity of the institution , and
show that the old adage , " Corporations have no souls , " is not always A true . woman who worked in the Lowell factories at the time young
when the " Offering " was published , and whose contributions to its pages side of the may water perhaps as they have certainl been y read were with here interest went afterwards even on for your a
time as missionary , to the Indians in Arkansas , . Soon after hex ' return to Lowell , while put in search of employment , she slipped
xipon the icy pavement , and so seriously injured her hip that it was a long time thought she would be disabled for life . She had been
an operative , was poor , and that was enough . She was taken to the hospitaland during six months or more of confinement to her
bedwas nursed , and tended with the kindest care . After her restoration , and departure from the hospitalthe writer often met
, her going thither with a bunch of flowers for " good Doctor Kimball , " as she termed him , whose unremitting care and skill
had . saved her from being a cripple , and whom she was never of praising .. Indeedtoo much commendation cannot be
bestowed weary upon the generous , supporters and the faithful physician of the Operatives' Hospital .
One of the most important questions relative to factory labour is : ¦ " Does it injure health ? " The result of investigations can
be but conjectural , owing to the difficulty of obtaining correct
statistics of the health of operatives after leaving the mills ; and
390 Lowelii Aistb Its Operatives.
390 LOWELIi _AISTB ITS OPERATIVES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/30/
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