Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and HospitalsNightingale, Florence
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Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals
Nightingale, Florence
Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Statistics
│ Tabernacle ││ No │Frame built chapel, without special ventilation. │
│ Bathurst St. ││ No │Conducted in a wooden chapel. Ventilation indifferent. │
│ Liberated African ││ — │ —— │
│ ││ │ │
│WESTERN AUSTRALIA. ││ │ │
│ ││ │ │
│ Annesfield ││ No │Brick house, situated on a hill. Diet: milk, │
│ ││ │ porridge, bread, meat, vegetables, soup, rice, &c. │
│ New Norcia ││ Gymnastics│ Diet: bread, meat, tea, rice, vegetables, &c. │
│ (Benedictines) ││ │ Gymnastics necessary to prevent sickness. │
│ ││ │ “The idea of bringing savages from their wild state │
│ ││ │ at once to an advanced civilization serves no other │
│ ││ │ purpose than that of murdering them.” This out-door │
│ ││ │ training has been hitherto successful “in preventing │
│ ││ │ the destructive effects of this error.” │
│ Sisters of Mercy ││ No │All girls. │
│ ││ │ │
│NATAL. ││ │ │
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│ Infant school, Edendale ││ No │ —— │
│ Day and Industrial, ││ No │ —— │
│ Edendale. ││ │ │
│ New Germany ││ Yes │Room made of wattle and daub. Ventilation good. │
│ ││ │ Diet: porridge and potatoes. │
│ St. Michael’s ││ No │Diet regular and simple. │
│ Ekukanyeni ││ Yes │Room well ventilated. Diet: porridge, meat, and │
│ ││ │ and coffee. The greatest danger to the children is │
│ ││ │ to be apprehended from their carelessness about │
│ ││ │ getting wet with European clothing on them. In their │
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