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    124 FACTS ASTD SCRAPS-

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    THE ORDER OF THE HOSPITALS OF HENRY VIII...

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    Dear Madam, As You Wish To Nave The Opin...

    comparativel " Can you y sta cle te an wh and y the heal homes thy on of the y modera poor in te means the country ? are kept all that the is superior in skill to the man

    liness points " I think and of sanitary tidiness domestic woman I think economy great , and sanitary more particularl civil reformer y in s clean will

    their always h tell ienic us that reforms . they look She has to . the a superior woman to titude carry out in nursing practicall the y

    bound well quite yg to say as that much nothing as . in nursing can be more the sick perfect , at ap , the at least same sailor to time is outward I am

    appearance , than the cleanliness of a ship . But the a race apart 66 Is . it the peculiar skill and industry of the tthe Eng i lish laborer t ' s f wife to

    in which the other this is to referable conduct in the the domestic one case economy , and o of a home ncompe or an y hosp o ita men l ? turn " I " think so out . of I thin his own k the house Anglo or -Sax out on of would civil hosp be very itals , sorry hotels to ,

    institutions women of all kindsand substitute , men-housekeepers and menmatrons . The contrast , between even naval hospitals , where there there is

    are female nurses , and military hospitals , where are none , most _" _iVbfe striking . —I should in point perhaps of order state and that cleanliness there . is a great and Ireland difference in ,

    and this generall north respect y speaking western . I would , counties among put first the women in Ang point of lo- Great Saxon of domestic Britain race in management the southern ;

    far below - these come the Danish race in the eastern counties , and the mixed race in the manufacturing counties ; and last , the Irish

    and Highland Celt . " obedientl I am , yours y ,

    B . L . S . B .

    124 Facts Astd Scraps-

    124 FACTS _ASTD SCRAPS-

    The Order Of The Hospitals Of Henry Viii...

    THE ORDER OF THE HOSPITALS OF HENRY VIII . AND

    EDWARD VI . vizSt . Bartholomews , Cubists , _Bride-, ,, weli , St . Thomas . —1557 .

    The Matron ! s Charge ,

    _Yotra office is an office of great charge and credit . For to yow is committed the and oversiht of all the women and

    governance g to children commaunde within this hospitall them . And or also of to them yow , is and geven if any authoriti shall e reprove any

    from happen time to disobey to time , , make whom such yow knowen , shall not unto be able the almoners to correct and , yow gover shall

    nors of the howse , that they may take order with them as shall be

    thought meete by their wisdomes . .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/52/