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220 WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO?
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; *' We Should Not Omit To Mention That ...
direct it , are responsible only to the government , and not merely sub * ordinates like the female officers in our prisons . " This experiment
at Neudorf liad only had a three years' trial , but had so completely - succeeded the same p , lan that . eleven It began other by prisons the efforts were made about by to two be humane organised ladies on
Sisters to found , and a reformatory affcer a while for , governm women . ent They having sent noticed to France this for small two institutionit was " taken in hand , officially enlarged , and organised
as a prison , as well as a penitentiary ; the original plan being strictladhered toand the same management retained . " At the time
y , of -Mrs , Jameson ' s visit " the total number of criminals was more than two hundredand others were expected the next day . "
"To manage these , unhappy , disordered , perverted creatures , there were twelve women , assisted hj three chaplains , a . surgeon , and a
the p every hysician first day instance . : none The as s of oldiers guards the men and and resided police gaolers officers in , had the , been who house tMs had dismissed , female but been visited board . sent The in of it
ness management dignity were , good perfect were sense ; , while extraordinary patience the , and food . tenderness , beds The , ventilation and of furniture and were the cleanli of the
very coarsest kind . The medical supervision was important , where there was as much disease—of frightful physical disease—as there was of moral diseasecrimeand misery . There wets a surgeon and
physician , who visited , dail , y . There was a dispensary , under the care of two Sisterswho acted as chief nurses and apothecaries .
, One of these was busy with the sick , the other went round with me . She was a littleactive womannot more than two or three and thirty ,
with a most cheerful , face and , bright , kind , dark eyes . She had been two years in the prison , and had previously received a careful
training of five years ; three years in the general duties of her vocationand two of medical training . She spoke with great
intelligenc , e of the years differences of individual temperament requiring a different medical and moral treatment .
" We must bear in mind that here men and women were acting together ; that in all the regulations , religious and sanitary , there
was mutual aid , mutual respect , an interchange of experience ; but the women were subordinate only to the chief civil and ecclesiastical
authority ; the internal administration rested with them . "I hope it will be remembered hereand in other parts of this
, essay , that I am not arguing * for any particular system of administration , or discipline , or kind or degree of punishment ; but merely
for this principle , that whatever be the system selected as the best , it should be carried out by a due admixture of female influence and
-management combined with the man ' s government . " So much for the action of women in foreign prisons , and for
what might be expected from , their introduction here . Also we have _^ testimony from the sister kingdom .
Captain _Cfrofton , who organised the new system of secondary
220 What Can Educated Women Do?
220 WHAT _CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ?
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/4/
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