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    WHAT OAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO? 219

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    rich , lady , and employing twenty-five Sisters of Charity ; of the hospitals at Vienna ; of the "S pedale _Maggiore" at Milan , and the hospital

    tendence of St . John of , at Sisters Vercelli and , and all another benefiting at Turin 1 in , all the under most tlie undeniable

    superin-, manner by such care , insomuch , that in one instance where they were expelled in 1848 , they had to be recalled to save the hospital

    from almost cureless ruin , we must remember that there is an economical as well as a religious side to women ' s work in community ,

    and that many of these Sisters represent a class equivalent to our wretched superannuated governesses .

    The same thing" is true of the Lutheran Deaconesses . Miss Nightingale wrote _niany years ago a touching account of those first

    collected and trained hy Pastor Fleidner _, at Kaiserswerth on the Khine . I have myself seen the vast hospital under their care at

    Berlin , and the smaller but most interesting establishment at Paris . The sources of information on these communities are cheap and

    accessible , and they may even be examined in practical illustration under the German Protestant Deaconesses at Dalston ; therefore I

    will not refer to them more fully in this place , but proceed to Phisoks .

    Mrs . Jameson tells us that an Act of Parliament procured through Mrs . Fry ' s influence , ordered the appointment of matrons and

    female officers in all our prisons ; but that no provision has been made defined for . * their They proper do not , training therefore , , nor in general are the fulfil qualific the requisites ations at , nor all

    produce the effects of educated labor ; while in Piedmont we find the general Heport on the Condition of the Prisons , addressed to the

    Minister of the Interior , stating that "It is an indisputable fact that the prisons which are served by the Sisters are the best ordered , the

    most cleanly , and in all respects the best regulated in the country ; hence it is to be desired that the number should be increased ; and this

    is the more desirable , because where the Sisters are not established , the criminal women are under the charge of gaolers of the other sex ,

    which ought not to be tolerated . " To this is added the testimony of the Minister himself . A prison is also mentioned which is actually

    governed " cliieny by women , and the women , as well as the men who at * . Wandswortli In some instances and Horsemonger superior women Lane have Gaol been ; while introduced in her ; I letter hear to of them Lord

    . ing are a John a staff Lad , carried _wlien " y Russell of -superintendent chap I out saw , lains Mrs by it . trained , Jameson and upwards , her medical women says deputy or six : officers , hundred " The and The , intermediate forty Female Ibut convicts tlie matrons Prispn government , is female . managed at There Brixton prison and is entirel , of disci , contain at course p Ful y line by _- - ,

    haminto which the reformed convicts . are drafted before their release , and in is which in , tlie same they m must anner pass under the the last c two ontrol years of of an their intelligent term of lad imprisonment y , assisted , by , a deputy and nine matrons . These innovations , which will appear

    extraordinary to many ' practical men , have been organised and carried out by Colonel Jebb . "

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    What Oan Educated Women Do? 219

    WHAT OAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ? 219

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/3/