European child-life in Bengal / by J. Fayrer.

  • Joseph Fayrer
Date:
1873
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Credit: European child-life in Bengal / by J. Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cj 2_ 13 slight hooping-cough ; a few cases of modified small-pox— varicella; some catarrhal and bronchial affections; herpes, abscess, stomatitis, slight conjunctivitis, convulsions, simple sores. SANITARY REPORT OF THE EUROPEAN FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM FOR SIX YEARS, COMMENCING JANUARY, 1863. During this period the monthly average of each year of the number of girls in the school has been, in round numbers— In 1863, 68; in 1864, 70; in 1865, 67; in 1866, 66 ; in 1867, 59; in 1868, 60—being an average of 65. The ages vary from 1 to 18 years, the great proportion being between the ages of 5 and 16. The sanitary history of this institution is as gratifying as it has been during previous years, and is not less remarkable for the absence of disease than for the generally vigorous state of health enjoyed by the inmates. The abstracts of admission into hospital show that there has been great immunity from epidemic disease of any severity, and the very low mortality, as well as the small amount of sick- ness, proves that the European child, under proper hygienic conditions and careful physical training, may live and thrive in the plains of Bengal almost as well as in its native country. It is not merely in the absence of any serious disease and the low death-rate that this is manifested, but in the vigorous, healthy appearance of the children generally. This was remarkably noticeable at the last yearly distribution of prizes, when the girls were assembled; and it is no exaggeration to say that their appearance on that occasion would have borne favourable comparison with that of the girls in any similar institution in Europe. For this very satisfactory state of matters the thanks of
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