Health, work, and play : suggestions / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Henry Acland
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health, work, and play : suggestions / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    through the gaping planks on the bed of a Woman in her confinement, on the floor below. But the other day, a young prostitute, possessor of one wretched room, fell down among us with the Cholera, upon her sole household goods, the sweepings of a tailor’s shop, half covered by the ragged ticking that had once made the list-shreds serve as a bed. She lived through the disease; struggled through a long illness, spent some months in a Penitentiary—and—returned to her ways. “Well, what then? Such isolated instances prove nothing: besides, they belong to moral rather than to physical evil,—to the wrong of a Landlord in the first case, to the sin of a fallen woman in the second.” Nay, then, be it so. Be it moral evil; be it so, that terrible as is the physical suffering, more terrible far the mental misery, and the incapacity for receiving comfort. And then? Granting that mental misery does de- pend upon moral as well as on physical causes, and supposing that sin does produce temporal wretched- ness, shall we say that for either reason the awaken- ing of the dreamers by the sudden shock of Pestilence, and their quick passage into the shadow of death, is J know of no such horror now: the place is altered. The owner is at his rest.
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