The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor in large towns / by T.P. Heslop.

Date:
1869
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Credit: The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor in large towns / by T.P. Heslop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    implied. I willingly draw a veil over the character of the men who respond to them. Still more willingly do I desist from entering on a picture of the depth of humiliation and ignorance—of recklessness and hardness of heart, finally, step by step, reached by those cursed with success in their efforts to obtain a Poor Law medical appointment in a large English town. Alas ! the Surgeon who enters those gates must leave all hope behind. If by its fruits we know the tree, we have an easy method of knowing the Poor Law system, which is a disgrace to the Government, a perpetual source of dishonour to the Profession of Medicine, and the cause of cruel injury to the poor, who at once despise and reject its aid, excepting in their direst necessity.*