A visit to the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children.

Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A visit to the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    natural capacity for health and enjoyment.” Had Charles Dickens been speaking now in Glasgow, and of Glasgow, he would not have required to change one syllable of these awfully suggestive words. Of the children 1 have been speaking of to-day a large proportion came from such “ wretched dwellings, reeking with horrible odours,” as Mr. 1 )ickens describes, many of them without even the luxury of an egg-box—filthy to such an extent, as the medical officer told us to-day, that it often seems impossible to get the dirt removed, and where shaving of the head is frequently a necessary expedient in order to get rid of the parasites which have been so long chronic there. Xo wonder that so many children have been growing up in Glasgow diseased and de- formed when Glasgow had no hospital to offer them. Xo wonder that when this hospital was first projected, 50 per cent, of all the deaths in
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