Workhouse hospitals / by J.H. Stallard.

  • Stallard, Joshua Harrison.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Workhouse hospitals / by J.H. Stallard. 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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    less attention, and the whole a constant supervision, in order to prevent the extension of infantile disease. The casual ward, the lying-in ward, the insane ward, and the nursery, have all to receive a visit; and, last of all, the Hospital, where the nature of the duties depends cliiefly upon the efficiency of the establish- ment and its popularity amongst the poor. Every workhouse contains a large proportion of cases which require supervision only. It is nursing rather than medicine they want, and without the assistance of a thoroughly conscientious, well-paid nurse, -such patients- will require the constant care of the Surgeon to guard against the idleness, carelessness, and cruelty of the pauper nurse; who, however smooth and attentive: before the Surgeon’s face, will be nearly certain to neglect the patient during the rest of the day; and woe betide then unfortunate one who shall dare to complain, for hef? can : be made to suffer a thousand annoyances whichpdindividually, do not amount to positive neglect.■ But i when nan eacute-case presents itself, new anxieties’arise which nq ioresigliii or oare of the Sur- geon can entirely prevent. ''oThe utter* inefficiency of the pauper’nurse is only iknown to the Surgeon when an important ioperationi'is? performed, or when life hangs on those minute attentions which constitute the very essence ofiisuccessful nursing; and, surely, it is the-duty of the public'.to provide the proper agents for.carrying out the directions of the Surgeon. It is a mockery to have hospitals without a stafl of nurses