Joseph Rogers, M. D. : reminiscences of a workhouse medical officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers.

  • Rogers, Joseph, 1820 or 1821-1889.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Joseph Rogers, M. D. : reminiscences of a workhouse medical officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trived out of one of the male infirm wards on the ground floor on the Sunday, and utilized on that occasion for both sexes. On the left of the entrance hall was the Board-room ; the corresponding apart- ment on the right, and the room above on the first floor, being the apartments of the master and matron. On the right side of the main building was a badly paved yard, which led down to the back entrance from Charlotte Street ; on each side of this back entrance there was—first, a carpenter’s shop and a dead-house, and secondly, opposite to it, a tinker’s shop with a forge and unceiled roof. This latter communicated with a ward with two beds in it, used for fever and foul cases, only a lath and plaster partition about eight feet high separating it from the tinker’s shop. There were no paid nurses. Such nursing as we had, and continued to have for the first nine years I was there, was performed by more or less infirm paupers, with the occasional aid of some strong young woman who had been admitted temporarily and was on pass. Unfortunately it frequently happened that just as she was becoming useful she left, and there was nothing for it but to fall back upon the ordinary broken-down inmates, the selection of whom did not rest with me, but with the master or the matron, or both. Just outside the male wards of the House, at the
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