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    THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL. 157

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    be that avoided much of the The suffering defects often and mortality consisted which in the now site prevailed s , but chiefl mi y ght in

    deficient about which ventilation . there had and been overcrowding more nonsense . Ther talked e were than no two contag words ion the want of

    sanitary and infection arrangements . Contagion It had had always been the resulted groundwork from of almost

    quarantine every false law reasoning and the , . and general the excuse neglect for of sanitary the superstition law . Perhaps of the of

    no word had ever done more harm , and it was a striking proof the what communication a mighty thing of a disease word was from . What person did to it person mean ? by It imp contact lied . the word there

    m such Suffice ade thing up it the to say as list contag fchat of contag in ion the , and ions ordinary the might imponderable sense be dismissed of nonentities to the limbo was which no of

    extinct superstitions . Just as there was no such thing as contagion , there always was the _resiilt no such of carelessness thing as inevitable and ignorance infection in hosp . Infection itals . Infec was

    tion vertible , bad terms management . Miss , Ni and htingale bad construction insisted were on the in importance hospitals con of - g

    which building had large caused hosp so itals , so deaths as to avoid at Scutari the evils . Second of overcrowding to fresh air , many

    p she atient would , ; and place suggested light as that next ho in spitals order should to ht promote be erected the recovery with a view of a

    to A their long receiving 1 discussion as ensued much direct , which sun ended -lig with it as possible a few resolved words . " that from these Sir

    papers H . But Verney we should feel , M . be P quite ., printed and bewildered Mr . separatel Tite , M how . y P . and , best and circulated to was choose . for our readers in these

    amidst the affluence of fact and suggestion contained reports . From Sir Population James Step and hen the delivering Tom Browns a long of Eng discourse land— on to Mr Social . Mackay

    Ecoin nomy on Australia Emi , gration is nearl , who , tells as three us that to two the " proportion but althoug of h , males the efforts to female of the s

    Emi the colonial gration Commissioners lands intrusted y to to them lessen , in the sending disparity out by as appropriating many eligible be h

    to sing add le women that they as find possible more are difficulty incessant in , I making must a ungallant proper sent selection enoug home

    from than would America be supposed aloneb . " successful He also tells Irish us emi that grants the amount , for the purpose y

    of amounted bring Of the ing since fair out sex 1848 indi , I gent find to nearly a relatives goodl £ 1 y , 000 array to , 000 share of eleven a year their ! thousand prosperity of , that has

    most " ht equivocal to " better occupation their condition abroad " , — by viz looking ., domestic for p servants laces , six , — thou have - soug

    sand six hundred in Australiaand the rest to add to the army of indifferent that most patient " helps , most " in America honorable . , , Trul most y useful glad was , and I most to find ill-requite that found of d

    of all professions—I mean governesses—only twenty were

    The Meetings At Liverpool. 157

    THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL . 157

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/13/