The training institutions for nurses, and the workhouses : an attempt to solve one of the social problems of the present day / by Edward Sieveking.

  • Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The training institutions for nurses, and the workhouses : an attempt to solve one of the social problems of the present day / by Edward Sieveking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18 them, by the practical conviction of their real benefit. And well indeed has the Society deserved of mankind, by the practical lessons it has already taught. The Training Institution will do well to limit its exertions in a similar manner; and we doubt not that the stimulus it will be able to afford, and the example it will set, will equally affect the welfare of humanity at large, though in a less direct manner than some of its more sanguine supporters may at present anticipate. But the want of good nurses is as much a national want, as the improve- ment of the labourer’s cottages ; and if we could find the means of practically basing the remedy upon the acknowledged absence of the necessary inter- course between the different classes of society—if we could propose a means of uniting existing Institu- tions with the projected scheme of developing what exists, instead of attempting to create—we are more likely to arrive speedily and satisfactorily at the solution of the problem. We have shewn, or rather we have hinted, in the above remarks, that there is a great lack of the proper and active sympathy on the part of the higher classes, for the poor; that the want of good nurses is felt by all classes of society; that the assistance of an efficient nurse would, in a great many cases, save a family from ruin and degrada- tion ; and that, to procure a body of nurses adequate to the demand, it is desirable to obtain the co-ope- ration, and to work through the medium, of existing