Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy
Date:
1897
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Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and put into a nutshell by Tennyson in the poem of “ The Village Wife — I thowt ’twur the will o’ the Lord, But Miss Annie, she saaid it wur draains. Make a father and mother understand that smelling sinks, cesspools, and drains mean lowered vitality, readiness to take disease, and too often death to themselves and their children as surely as fire will burn, or sucking matches will poison them, and they cannot go on in dull contentment with their surroundings. 1 o deal with this subject at all adequately nurses must have a certain amount of special knowledge. Practical Hygiene. Hygiene is a science in itself, and only a few of the fundamental principles can be taught without a regular course of instruction. But every district nurse should have a few simple practical lectures on drainage and its objects, with its appliances of traps, sinks, cisterns, etc., the laws which govern ventilation, the storage of water and the sources whence it comes, the nature of nuisances and their legal remedies, overcrowding and its effects, and to whom she should apply when she finds anything wrong. To those who live in or near London a visit to the Sanitary Institute and Parkes Museum,