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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    / o 2_ 23 now recall, but it must have been pretty general through the school, for I remember the chapel was filled with beds as an additional hospital, and there was some anxiety, from the idea that it was modified small-pox, but no deaths occurred.” The following letters from Dr. Webb and Dr. Jackson confirm this :— Letter from Dr. Allan Webb to the Secretary of the European Female Orphan Asylum—1852. “ Having had medical charge of the European Female Orphan Asylum during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851, I have had abundant opportunity of judging of its general healthiness, and comparing it with other educational in- stitutions for children in Calcutta. It must be, to all connected with this admirable institution, most gratifying to learn that the children are so healthy; that there is no institution in Calcutta surpassing it. I doubt if there be any in India more free from disease; and this happy result is attained—it must not be lost sight of—in children exclusively European in the climate of Bengal. “ But this testimony to the health of the girls generally is not limited to immunity from disease only, but comprehends that robust capacity for work and play which marks the well-being of a child. For this great blessing under Providence the children are indebted to the intimate personal supervision of the Lady Managers themselves in all that appertains to diet, exercise, and the neatness, cleanliness, and order which are inseparable from the salubrity of a girls’ school; the fine open grounds and large airy upper-room dormitories being very important adjuncts. “ The school has not been exempt from disease. There
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