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262 THE DEPARTURE OF MISS RYE.
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The Numerous Friends Who Have Heartily S...
management of their nurses , be they what they may , while in many cases—far too many- —the nurse has had no experience
beyond that afforded in her own immediate family , to prepare her for undertaking such serious responsibility . Yet , by extreme
watchfulness on her part , combined with the quick perception natural to our sex , success often attends her career , and her
name becomes fully established . Then follow the unceasing * demands upon this important individual , till , in some instances , she
has been induced to engage herself to three ladies at one time , these ladies sending their carriage for her niht and dayas her
services were found indispensable . For this imperfect g attendance , , at the end of the month the nurse has received from each lada sum
varying from £ 10 to £ 20 , besides presents . y , " I may mention another instance which occurred in the Bush , far
from any town . But one nurse could be found , similarly untrainedand shewhile attending upon a lady in her confinement
was called , away , to see her husband , who had arrived on horseback , . On meeting him at the door , he said nothing , but caught up his
wife , and galloped away with her to attend a neighbour . '' Under such circumstances what might not occur ? and the fearful
mortality among the young gives serious cause of alarm . " For the humbler classes in their private homesthere is literally
, no suitable provision , and the consequences can be easily understood in a climate which is most enervating , and where the girls
marry young , and where also , in all classes , the mothers have , more or less , every branch of domestic duties either to
supervise or perform themselves . Weakened as the constitutions of these mothers soon become , future generations will inevitably suffer
unless steps are taken to provide the several colonies with persons better qualified to attend to the sick and suffering . "
" With the best organized system of training nurses for a climate like Englandthere will remain much for them to learnwhich
experience onl , y can give , in a tropical region ; at the same , time , with the intelligence trained nurses may be _exj _3 ected to possess ,
and by their being provided with letters to the leading professional menand a few only going out at a timethe necessary information
would , be soon acquired . " , _"As an old resident in Sydney , I have thought and felt most
deeply on this subject , and I know no greater blessing than such an arrangement would confer upon our fellow-creatures in a far distant
land , where so many of us Have dear relatives . It would give to those whose labours have exceeded their strength , the much needed
rest , and to the stranger arriving , every prospect of future independence , without interfering materially in a pecuniary point of view
with the former staff , since the ever increasing flow of population , now more than ever attracted to those shoreswill provide
tion for a fresh supply of nurses . Who so , well able to consider occupa
this subject , or have it carried out , as Miss Nightingale ? "
262 The Departure Of Miss Rye.
262 THE DEPARTURE OF MISS RYE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/46/
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