"Woman's work in promoting the cause of hygiene." : (State hygiene- sec. ix.) / paper read by Margaret Eleanor Scott.

  • Scott, Margaret Eleanor.
Date:
1891
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Credit: "Woman's work in promoting the cause of hygiene." : (State hygiene- sec. ix.) / paper read by Margaret Eleanor Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    theirs by right—responsibilities which may be classed, indeed, as the highest privileges, and the noblest of all women’s rights, the exercise of which will beneficially affect, not only their immediate circle, but humanity at large. As my paper deals primarily with women’s work in promoting the cause of hygiene, I may, perhaps, be pardoned for substituting the feminine for the mascu¬ line gender in my concluding words— “ Women never nearer to the goddesses attain, Than in the art of giving health to men.” Jarrold and Sons, Printers, Norwich, Yarmouth, and London,