Excerpt from All the Year Round, Vol. 19: A Weekly Journal; From December 14, 1867, to June 6, 1868 The female infirmary contains four patients, and has a foot-warmer, a bed-pan, a plentiful su ply of water, a sufiiciency of towels, and fair y appointed beds. One of the water-beds is in London, being mended, but the other is in use; and from the poor girl who sits reading at the fire to the poor invalid who is pouting her life away in bed, these infirmary inmates seem decently housed and cared for. It is true the nurse's complaint that the windows could not be opened without, in wet weather, letting the rain pour in, nor in cold weather without giving all the inmates cold, might be avoided by the simple rocess of making them movable at the t0p; wrile her statement as to the foul smell arising from the closet close by, was a sufii ciently grave reflection upon the man ement; but this infirmary, with its light cheerfu aspect, its bright fire, and trained nursing, was so supe rior to what we saw subse uently, that we are anxious to look on the brig t side, and to give full credit for the pains taken to su ly the more obvious and pressing wants. Wit hint that with but four srck people to look after, the nurse must lead a somewhat leisurely life and, feeling considerably puzzled as to the extent of the staff under our rigorous friend, the master, if the remainder of the house is looked after on the same liberal scale, we pass to the male ih firmary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.