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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. The subject matter of the following remarks has in various forms been already privately brought before the notice of several individuals whose sym- pathy in the condition of the lower orders, and extensive acquaintance with existing institutions eminently qualify them to form an opinion on any proposition bearing upon social reforms. The manner in which they have expressed themselves in regard to the proposition which the writer now ventures to bring before a larger tribunal, en- couraged him to hope that he has not been led away by a mere hypothesis. He will, indeed, con- sider himself fortunate if he should succeed in imparting his own convictions to others, who may not have been in a position to arrive at such con- clusions from personal intercourse with various classes of society ; and if the main features of his proposition should happen to coincide with views already adopted by men of larger experience, he trusts, that by their countenance and support, they will assist in rendering the undertaking more feasible and more practical. a 2 Brook Street, Groavenor Square. E. S.