The epileptic and crippled child and adult : A report on the present condition of these classes of afflicted persons, with suggestions for their better education and employment.
- Family Welfare Association (Great Britain)
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The epileptic and crippled child and adult : A report on the present condition of these classes of afflicted persons, with suggestions for their better education and employment. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The epileptics are, in fact, a large contingent of the usually or permanently unemployed. Dr. Ferrier told us that he ‘‘ had taken a par- ticular interest in those who, in the intervals of their fits, were capable of working, but who, by reason of epilepsy were without employ- ment. I constantly see at the hospital,” he said, “ skilled artisans who are ]perfectly able to work, who are subject to fits. Once they have a fit in the workshop, they are turned adrift. There is no provision for them. A great many of them are quite capable of working, but being uncer- tain and not to be depended on, they cannot get employment, and become paupers. . . . The Poor Law does nothing for them but keep them alive, whereas charity might benefit them con- siderably.” We turn then to the workhouse. We find that in the large unions there are usually many epileptics in the workhouse. Thus in the City of London Workhouse and Infirmary there are 43; in St. George’s, Hanover Square, 43 ; in St. George-in-the-East, 35; in Kensington, 20 females and 15 males; in Wandsworth, 22. In the infirmaries there are comparatively few: c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28065773_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
