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    384 NURSING, PAST AND PRESENT.

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    y . of Sic sam persons k ne ; s ' " to who . effect poverty cannot by every afford and a available to possibilit have means those of means curing the recovery supp alleviating lied from at liom disease the _. e _?*

    butions wher disease e these , . are But institutions the Continental necessary , are hosp qualifications mostl itals y supported y being in usuall the by United or voluntary supported King contri dom by - ,

    endowments and Government aidare much more lax y in their rule © of admissionand the sick are , admitted into them without the

    , poor of same life stringen is oftener t qualifications the question ; th and an " wh want at benefit of the common can be afforded necessaries to

    for the them disease in . the The wards patients of , our in fact workhouses , are such as under have the j > rovision Poor-law made . " -

    Sal In petriere France this is set is easil aside y observable for infirm ; old for women instance , , some a large of whom part of onl the

    are the invalids infirmities , and incident none to of age whom . In can Al , strictl giers , y the speaking , great , civil be " cured hospital of y

    workhouse contains many and patients who are who retained in Eng there land not would for cure be sen but t merel to the ;

    because they are sickly , helpless and forlorn , . , y

    384 Nursing, Past And Present.

    384 NURSING , PAST AND PRESENT .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/24/