Illustrated lectures on nursing and hygiene / by R. Lawton Roberts.

  • Roberts, R. Lawton.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Illustrated lectures on nursing and hygiene / by R. Lawton Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wlio is constantly hastening hither and thither—one might almost say from Dan to Beersheha—in the prosecution of his bcneYoleut labours pro utilitate liominum, says, in answer to inquiries, “ There are many facts before us of the great im- provement in nursing among the poor, and in miners’ cottages, &c., since the introduction of the work of the St. John Ambulance Association amongst them. Some time ago I had the testimony of an old country doctor, of forty years’ exijerieuce in practice, who said, ‘ I have noticed that the home nursing of cases is done better in the houses wh.ere there has been ambulance instruction; the wives and daugh- ters are more attentive to the instructions given by their medical man than formerly.’ And (continues Surgeon-Major Hutton) I am constantly receiving from various pnrts of the country testimony to the same effect of the value and useful- ness of the home-nursing instruction of the St. John Ambu- lance Association, and of the different Nursing Gruilds.” In response to inquiries, I have received similar testimony as to the value of the Nursing Corps which have been formed in different parts of the kingdom (under the auspices of the Ambulance Association) for the nursing of the sick poor in their own homes.^ The St. John Ambulance Association is able and anxious, as has been already insisted upon, to distribute the necessary instruction far and wide throughout Britain, her colonies and dependencies. The representatives of all grades of society, from Boyalty to the inmates of our humblest cottages, are even noAv numbered amongst the pupils of the Association. New classes are ever being formed. Fresh Corps are con- stantly being established. Women instructed by the Asso- ciation are found ministering to their suffering relatives, tending the sick ])oor in their own dwellings, and taking part in public representative gatherings—such, for example, as the review of Ambulance Corps by Lord Wolseley, on 5th July, in Wollaton Park, Nottingham. This is as it should be—to j^romote universal instruction in Home Nursing—truly a “ labour of love,” the proper carry- ing out of which forms, “ in the hour of need, the silver lining to the dark cloud of illness.” 1 Dr. E. L. Robinson, for example, tells me that the Guernsey “ Corps, so far as it goes, is of the greatest value, and is an immense boon to the poor.” b
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