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427 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editor of the English Woman' } s ...
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427 Open Council.
427 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editor Of The English Woman' } S ...
To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal * Madam , ect of
or to imag In the be ine rep learned moral that ly to disci you inquiries from p do line the not which with writing need regard is such necessary of as to Esquirol describe books for the on chiefly Conoll the patient subj the and ; medical this other is insanity , treatment of medical course , I _,
by authoritie referring s ; but to the you annual would reports obtain s more published general , by knowle the y Middlesex , dge received for your and obj other ect ,
county atients pauper of the or middle proprietary class asy on lums low ; terms in the and last of , are such are too pay many ing women p whocompelled to toil as governesses or , as needlewomen , have broken
reports classes ton down The Greneral in . secretary , of Hanwell their , Lunatic strugg of , C any olney le in Asy for of which Hatch lum these dail , y the would , institutions bread The different Surrey . all furnish would inmates Asylum supp statistics , have St l . y Luke you been of ' with s , occup the Northamp cop various ied ies . of
for I warded have emp directed to loyment some from which number also s of some a f < facts Journal may of be Mental gathered Science . It " is to the be you
press result the of public a _combination with , an of idea medical of the proprietors superiority of of asy such lums institutions , who desire as to have im " - medical All lums must have a " medical attendant
therefore proprietors it be . inferred private that asy in seeking to exalt the medical proprietor , , frequentl the good of dependent may the patients on the is fitness not , the of onl a matron y object , for ; this the care same of proprietor his patients is
throp and the ists general y admit , prosperity may be qualified of his establishment to fulfil all the . A responsibilities woman , these of p such hilan ' a - while in the subordinate character of " matron" " housekeeper
but position cuniary her advantage qualifications discovered s resultin , in they g consider lums to a hav " , proprietor would e existed become . " in the And neutralised houses yet the which by abuses the have pe so , - frequentlasy
y , female rej Women oiced patients themselves in oug belong ht ; to ing and for be , to such competent if medical a class duty men to of much take . educated the good entire would women domestic resul could t to charge be the induced of mentall insane to y
qualify a , afflicted other departments of their own of female sex . At labor present , and , public many who opinion might affects be profitabl this as well y and as themnot much because of the
painful usefull estimate y or emp of laborious what loyed the in asy world nature lums regards of , shrink the as occupation from a becoming and , as , vocation on so hters account . who of the false
Meanwhilethe motherswivessistersdaug , once were than loved they and other cherished , wise would , are , when , be , to suffering the , superintendence from , mental of affliction the coarse , , left the more
uneducated M lum y own s , and and experience the since unprinci from , gained the pled dail . first y within superintendence the walls of of one a home of our for best patients public , asy
instances chieiiy from , illustrative the families of the of want clergymen of a beaten and the often path professions _becatise for woman , obli affords ' s work too suddenl ; m some any
hihlcultivated minds have done too much ged y to g strain y families them to the Some utmost illregulated for self-support , or loyed the assistance minds _g-ive of way their on de the
pending . -or unemp first controlled physical have or moral advanced trial step ; others by , step from on self the -in road dulgence to ins and anity tempers , and have
unneeded onl from , y moral utter disci i pline to of restore the law their s of reasonin health g hav power e sunk . from a state Manygnorance
of too ordinary in whom , weakness selfishness to and one of passion incurable have debility been dominant and , fatuity , have , while become some an noblest inheritance
easy It lias prey been to the to my destroyer own mind of our a most interesting duty . to aid in the restora-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/67/
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