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than conglomerated in wards to themselves.
Every sick child ought to have a Nurse to
itself: this is impossible in the best Children's
Ward.
But in Adult Wards, the man or the
woman in the next bed, if well selected,
will often take almost entire charge of
the adjacent child-Patient. Even the
most unlikely Patients: Young men of 20 or 21:
will do this: to the immeasurable benefit
of both child & adult.
This is only an illustation from Hospital
life: but]
the real way of benefiting Pauper girls & infants,
if they cannot be boarded out, would be
to put them mixed up into a Cottage or "Home" School,
with a good Nurse-Matron & female servant-
girls to learn house-work & help 'mind'
infants: (as they would do in a good home.)
[Would it be quite impossible for them to have a
cow, pig & poultry?]