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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    their duties ? Is not the Poor-Law question as great a thorn as ever in the side of the Home Secretary ? We are not so presumptuous as to point out the means by which all the evils of pauperism may be done away with ; but we are bold enough to assert that pauperism is a disgrace to a Christian commu- nity, and that it can only be a result of an insufficient performance of the duties on the part of the rich to the poor. It is at least well to know the source of an evil, though we may not at once discover the means of eradicating the influence of long miscon- duct. It is well to recognise the real malady, and to become deeply conscious of our own guilt; aud though we may not destroy the recollection, we may yet obviate its injurious influences, and gradually neutralise its future effects. We may appear to have wandered far from our subject, but we have wished to demonstrate that the scheme to which it is desired to draw attention rests upon a wider basis than that of mere expediency ; that it involves one of the most important social problems of the day ; and that it can only be made effective, by acknowledging the true relations which bind man to man, and the state and religion. The Training Institution for Nurses has been esta- blished for the purpose of remedying, to a certain extent, the evil of which we have spoken ; and there can be little doubt that the exertions of its supporters will meet with much cordial and active sympathy, and in the end enjoy large success. But we have