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NOTICES OF BOOKS, 421
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International Statistical Congress. Prog...
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and of her functions deficiency of in the the infant most whom ordinary she is information suddenlcalled concerning the to cherish nature upon _,
y she and knows bring * not up . to Whe what n her han heart d to turn is wrun to save g by it witnessing from impending its sufferings danger , , and she that
much bitterly of laments the difficulty her ignorance and danger and hel proceeds plessness from . But her not defective being aw education are ,
turn the , idea go never throug occur h the s to same her painful that those and who profitless come after experience her must with , in their their children , unless , with rational foresight , they be prepared , by the be called requisite
instruction and training , for those duties which they may soon on to perform . * * * small It is true is the that proportion all women of are those not who destined are unconnected to become mothers bfamil ; but t how ies
very y y , there friendshi who p , , at or some sympath period y , with their the live children s , would of not others find ! their how usefulness very few and are happiness increased by the possession of a kind of knowledge so intimately
allied to their best feelings and affections ! because laws iC l of It may the medical infant , indeed aid constitution , is be always alleged , , or at that of hand the mothers to princi correct require ples their of no infant errors knowled management . Accordin ge of the g ,
to sulted the present till the habits evil is done of society , and , the however health , professional broken ; but men even are if rarel they y were con- , fulfil intelligence their instructions and information in a are rational needed and in the beneficial mother , to irit enable . On her to spevery
account such as , to therefore fit both , it niind is urgentl and y bod necessary for the th duties at female as well education as for the should embel be - lishments of life—for the substantial y happiness of the domestic circleat
, , least and that as much while as for the effort light and is made fleeting to hour refine s of and fashionable elevate the amusement mindthe , — , every , solid substratum of useful knowledge should not be neglected . ' with
the ' * _JSTo vital reflecting importance person of can the read subject this appeal to the wi fut thout ure welfare being impressed of the _htmian family . "
Notices Of Books, 421
NOTICES OF BOOKS , 421
International Statistical Congress. Prog...
International Statistical Congress . Programme of the Fourth Session . Her Majesty ' s Stationery Office .
. tog The ether Stati delegates stical Congress from all lias parts during of the the wo third rld , not week omitti of Jul ng y called
Central Africa / ' to meet at Somerset House . The unusual j ) lan was adopted of pri ? iti ? ig the chief papers to be read , in the programme ,
they then served as texts for discussion , and the plans proposed for collecting different classes of statistics were accepted or modified as
the case might be . "We give our readers the benefit of the draft upon " Hospital Statistics " submitted to the Congress by Miss
_Nightingale . It was accompanied by an elaborate appendix , containing tabular forms for tne different hospitals . We also add a
short summary of the discussion which ensued . uniform _f Up to plan the . present Every time hospital the has statistics followed of hosp its own itals nomenclature have been kep and t _classic on no
of fication the vast of diseases amount , of and observations there has been which no have reduction been on made any in uniform these estab model - observations lishments . So in their far as present relates state either bear to exactl medical the or sam sanitary e relations science as , an these
indefinite number of astronomical observations y made without concert , and reduced to no common standard , would bear to the progress of astronomy ,
r fhe material exists , but it is inaccessible ..
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/61/
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