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386 NIXESING, P&ST AND PEESENT.
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Better At This Nurses Juncture For , Whe...
tern lias worked admirably from the first , and still continues to work well ; those who doubted it at first are now warm supporters
and a considerable part of the hospital has been set apart for the , comfort of the sisters and nurses . "
In a similar manner , the nursing- of the London University Hospital has lately been handed over to the ladies of All Saints '
Home . The writer accompanied a iriend over several of the wards in which the Superior was carrying * out sanitary improvements
and from which , consequently , the patients were temporarily , removed . Then there is the German Hospital at Dalston , managed
by German deaconesses , where , among other inmates , numerous ibreign bakers , suffering from diseases peculiar to their occupation ,
; are received and nursed by their countrywomen * It is some years , _« inee I visited the placebut I remember that there were many
. sick children , and that sep , arate rooms could be hired by ladies _requiring special and private treatment .
I am not sure whether the widely branching establishment of Olewer includes the direct care of the sick , as well of the repentant ,
the poor , and the suffering ; but it may fairly be quoted as applicable to the subject , since the , question between religious and
secular work is _j _^ actically the same for all these departments of benevolence . The sisters who plunged into the depths of the
cholera districts at Plymouth , must not be forgotten , nor the English deaconesses who have planted their infant institution
near Euston Square . I adduce these names just to enforce the i _^ ruth asserted by Dr . Martynthat the ideas involved in work
, undertaken under more or less of religious rule , are being reduced to practical experiment by the English Church . But we must not
forget our countrywomen belonging to the Roman Catholic Church . The Order of the Sisters of Mercy superintends a large hospital in
Dublin , over which I was conducted last December . The one side -of the quadrangle which is completed , contains 100 beds . The
institution is entirely managed by a detachment of six sisters , assisted hy a suitable number of wardmaids . Nothing can be more perfect
than the arrangements , and the best medical men of Dublin belong . to the regular staff of physicians attending at the Mater _Misericordiae
Hospital . This Order is planted in many English towns , and there are at least three convents in London , but I do not know if it
_j ) ossesses any hospital in England . There is , however , one in Great Ormonde Streetnursed by another community .
, Nevertheless , sisterhoods , whether Anglican or Roman Catholic , are not the machinery which is at present most popular among us
for providing nurses for the sick . Training Institutions are thought to better suit the genius of the English peopleand accordingly in
, several towns they are being started , after the example of that which owes its existence to the Nightingale Fund . Prospectuses of three
such have lately been issued , for Liverpool , Bristol , and Bath ; and
the Report of the Committee of the Nightingale Fund for the year
386 Nixesing, P&St And Peesent.
386 _NIXESING , P _& ST AND PEESENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/26/
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