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    l&O MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN;

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    -«A» » F In Or Inviting Women, Consider ...

    The next jpoint oif interest to be noticed is the connection of women "with public charities and benevolent institutions .

    In all civilised nations women have always taken an active share in these charities ; indeed , if we include those employed in the

    -subordinate duties of nurses , matrons , etc ., the number of women actually engaged would much outnumber that of men . How large

    a part of the character of these institutions , and of the influence women imag exerted ined emp b . y them loyed Yet it upon in is them society certain and , , is connected and dependent admitted with upon b them y this all , may who great readil have bod y y any be of

    acquaintance with the matter , that this influence at present is far from being a good one . It is well known how much the efficiency of women as or supporters of public institutions is

    impaired by the managers lack of knowledge and practical tact to second their zealand business men who have dealings with them in these

    relations ; are very apt to regard them as troublesome and uncertain alliesrather than as efficient co- _"workers . With those employed

    in the , active care of the institutions the case is still worse ; the very term hospital nurse conveys the idea of belonging to a degraded

    class . How to obviate this great evil has become an important question .

    In England , where all public institutions ,, hospitals— -civil and military tiaries an immense , etc —workhouses ., form extent a great and , houses having system for , a dealing social reformation with importance the , prisons poorer too , serious classes peniten to to

    be overlooked , the question , has assumed sufficient weight to be discussed In Catholic earnestl countries y by government this is and the lishe public d to at a large certain .

    extentaccomp that cerned is — , so b far the as reli the ious domestic orders and the nursing sisters * of departments charitand are others con- . y

    Every one y who is familiar g with , such institutions must have been etc struck caused by the by contrast this one between thingby the the continental cheerful and and Eng respectable lish hosp home itals - ,

    _like ., air of well-managed French , establishments , as compared with the gloomy , common aspect of even wealthy English or American

    charities ; and must have observed the salutary influence upon patients , students , and all connected with these places , of the presence

    and constant superintendence of women who , instead of being entirel and y confidence common and and subordinate by the , are classes universall almost y regarded withveneration with respect .

    , poorer , sider It is these very sisterhoods common among as the both result Catholics entirel and of reli Protestants ious enthusiasm to con- , y g

    and to assert that large bodies of women can only be induced to from accept thi these motive occupations When , and efforts carry have them been out in made this efficient in England manner and ,

    s . is Germany always to to the establish religious anything element of ; that the the kind appeal among has Protestants been made , in it . such efforts have been madewith more or less _success

    Many , ,

    L&O Medicine As A Profession For Women;

    l & O MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN ;

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/6/