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    INTERFERENCE. 339

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    there is no end of such inconsistencies and anomalies , which have we know not howWhen the dress suitable for nurses in

    grown up . a workhouse had to "be decided upon , it was the gentlemen , " viz ., the guardians and _} : ) oor-law inspectorwho were consulted upon the

    , the subject head . E of ven these were establishm an educated ents and , the superior assistance woman of a to (( be Council found at of

    Ladies " would not be unnecessary ; but when we consider that we should probabllook in vain for such a person in this position , we

    cannot doubt the y absolute necessity of this addition to the management . At present , either the matron must be solely responsible for

    all the arrangements that ought to come within the " feminine " departmentor she is controlled by the " board , " in whose province ,

    I contend , , it ought not to be placed . The chaplain of one of these large district schools is looked upon

    with the greatest affection by the poor friendless and pauper children , who often to him You are my father ; " it is touching to see that

    the pent-up say affections will find vent , and it is the most hopeful point in the management of these children that they do manifest an

    affectionate disposition . But does it not also point us to the important truth that the motherlas well as the fatherly influence must be

    supplied ? It may be y said that it is supplied by the matron ; but we doubt if this is the case , and indeed if it is possible for one

    individual to extend it over a thousand children . It is useless to talk of its being supplied by the school teachers ; there may be more or

    less of sympathy and kindness in them , but not all that we or the children We do require most . entirelconcur in the remarks made in the last y

    Journal upon the subject of the organisation of charity in Paris , and earnestly do we desire to see more of woman ' s influence and agency hout

    introduced into ours ; it is the leaven that is wantingthroug our entire poor-law system . The remarks made upon our workhouses are not far wrong . How they should be otherwise than

    such gigantic heterogeneous failures under or anomalous the present intermixture system we is do attempted not know in . any No

    other form of charity . One can only look upon them as vast depots , where misery of all kinds is stowed awaymuch in the same manner

    as some of our collections in the British , Museum . The necessity for subdivision and classification is beginning to "be felt even for these

    dead materials , let us hope it may soon follow into these living collections of poverty , which may then become more manageable and

    truly Christian . When we add that many of these vast depots are exthink pected no to one be managed can wonder by th two at in paid their persons results placed they may in authority too often , we be

    called failures . In no respect are they more strikingly so than in that poin awful t alluded dreariness to in of the passin article g hours just referre and days d to , and which month do speaks in s and of land years " the

    in absolute idleness , as I have seen infirm paupers Eng . " This idleness ( and indeed the want of enforced and sufficient

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    Interference. 339

    INTERFERENCE . 339

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/51/