Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale.

  • Lonsdale, Margaret
Date:
1895
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Credit: Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    her place, but she had only begun her work when she caught small-pox from the out-patients; she was very ill, and even in her delirium showed the bent of her mind by occupying herself in tearing up her sheets into bandages. The Sisters were little able to attend to her, but as she could not be moved, she was placed in strict quarantine, and none of the servants waited on her. Hence arose all kinds of conjectures with regard to a little room looking to the front, and which always had the blinds drawn down. The wiseacres among the opponents of the Cottage Hospital got up a story that this room had been converted into an oratory for the use of the Sisters, and that a figure of the Virgin Mary, with a crown on her head, was kept there. The Protestant wi-ath of the Walsall people was roused, and a persecution of the Sisters began. Stones and mud were thrown up at the hospital windows, and continual petty annoyances were inflicted on the nurses. This foolish excitement was shared even by persons among the more educated classes, who might have known better. MeanwhUe, Sister Dora recovered from her ilhiess, and the secretary of the hospital sarcastically informed suspicious inquirers, that it was quite true the room had been devoted to the honour of the Virgin, but it was to the Virgin Dora, not to the Virgin Mary ! Sister Dora took the work of nursing in the
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