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180 INEANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES.
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* , About One-Fourth Of All The Children...
and its destination . Let such , facts be conveyed in the simplest led language of this , and kind let all could that not is not fail proved to be be turned rigidly to excluded good account . Know in _^ ge
after life . If embodied in the form of questions and replies , such a it collection has "While a close ignorance might all be in p termed lays sheer so the consp cat lect icuous echism ; the a of prevalence part health in the . work of the of latter death , ,
indeedconcerns y our character neg for morality as a nation . "Whenever , we penetrate below the level of the educated classes ,.
well a hundred -being . things A great startle annual us from sacrifice a comfortable of infant faith life in occurs our social from should
country be neg the lect subjects , of thousands mothers of p and upon ity rather nurses thousands who than , of in of their women the blame majority husb . are ands In compelled this of at cases the prosperous , to eke
of out their the insufficient children ' s lives means . While earned the by mother works in the factory expense or be the the mill especial , the little end ones of her pine existence at home to afford for that . But care unhapp which il it y should more
, , so than much mere of neg the lect mothers —positive , but crime of the must system be laid under to which the charge they , not are to leave their
pedient some children employed handicraft of during . allay _- It is ing the pursuit well by day known , or , iates not who that unfrequently the , althoug cries mothers for h at food compelled resort home and , to are matern the absorbed cruel al care ex by . - .
To such a pitch has this op been carried , that it is a practice to suspend over the cradles a sponge dipped in a solution of the deadly drug ,. wretched substitute
and the child is trained to have recourse to this This for proper shows nourishment how the strongest whenever feelings promp of ted maternal by the love calls may of hunger become . -
and gradually are easil blunted propagated . But such because crimes from are examp the growth le and . of long a sy fami stem
y , , would liarity , of they themselves come to be so regarde sin against d as a their necessit offspring y . Few . , if The any voice women of the motherheart
the until nature necessaries stifled is strong by vicious of enoug life h . habits to Sometimes speak , or for crushed the indeed child out it to by happens absolute that want ' s that of
which should be . cherished by the mother , , as her own life is rechild garded as How an encumbrance else are to , be and interpreted she sets a price those on dark the head and almost of her
burial Incredible of mothers . clubs doings insurin for the occasionall g the sake means of the y broug of gain bury , ht to ing be to , not obtained light in ? one Do by , but we the in not death several hear of '
, their infants ? destruction Nothing has of her a more home injurious associations effect . The on the proper female sphere character of woman than ' s of her mind
action is her home . There alone the true perfections described and character are are chiefl developed observed . Instances when it is of the depravity woman ' such s business as those of y
180 Ineant Mortality And Its Causes.
180 _INEANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/36/
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