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wife makes known her situation , and states her inability to meet the expense of an accoucheur . The consequence is , that from him , through his recommendation or under his directions , she obtains a ticket either for the " Lying-in Hospital , " or for " the Royal Maternity Society . ' By the former of these charities , she is provided with gratuitous board , lodging , medical attendance , churching , registry of her child ' s baptism , &c . &c . By the latter she is accommodated with the gratuitous services of a midwife to deliver her at her own home .
* Delivered of her child at the cost of the " Royal Maternity Society , " she is left by the midwife—but then she requires a nurse , and for a nurse , of course , she is unable to pay herself ;—a little exertion , however , gets over this difficulty—she sends to the district visitor , to the minister , or to some other charitable parishioner ^ and by their interest with the parish officers , she has , at last , a nurse sent to her
from the workhouse . But still she has many wants—and these too she is unable to supply at her own expense . She requires blankets , bed and body linen for herself , and baby-linen for her infant . With these is shefurnished by another charitable institution . Soon after her marriage she had heard one of her neighbours say , that she had been favoured in no less tlianjfoe successive confinements with the loan of the u box of linen' * from the i 4 Benevolent Society . " She had ,
accordingly , taken care to secure the " box of linen" for herself , and during her confinement she receives occasional visits and pecuniary relief from a female visitor of the charity . By her she is kindly attended to , and through her or the " district visitor ? ' she is provided , in case of fever or other illness , with the gratuitous services of the parish apothecary , or of some other charitable medical practitioner in the district .
At the end of the month , she goes , pro forma , to be churched ; and though , perhaps , the best-dressed female of the party , she claims exemption from any pecuniary offering by virtue of a printed ticket to that effect put into her hands by the midwife of the Royal Maternity Society . ' 4 child thus introduced into the world is not worse provided for
than his parents . Of course he requires vaccination , or in case of neglect he takes the small-pox . In either case he is sent to the ' * Hospital for Casual Small-pox and for Vaccination , " and by this means costs his parents nothing . * He has the measles , the whooping-covgh , and other rnorbid affections peculiar to childhood . In all these instances he has the benefit of the " City Institution for Diseases of Children . '
* Indeed , from his birth to his death , he may command any medical treatment . If his father is a Welshman , he applies to the " Welsh Dispensary , "—if not , or he prefers another , he has the Tower Hamlets Universal Dispensary , " " The London Dispensary , " and the " City of London Dispensary . " In case of / ever , he is sent to the " Fever
Hospital . " Fora broken limb , or any sudden or acute disorder , he is admitted into the London" or other " Public Hospital . " For a rash , or any specific disease of the skin or ear , he is cured at the " London Dispensary . " And for all morbid affections of the eye , he goes cither to the 8 ame charity or to the * London Ophthalmic Infirmary . " In case of
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Poor Laws and Paupers . $ 67
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/7/
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