Blue hen's chicken. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1848-1854, 1850-03-08

TIRE REsounD P.pNNfanD.
A SURGEONS STORY.

A StlRGEONfS SJ'ORY
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T hnock ! knock. knock LII was again ih
'aUni lar nightly warning. A season of dis
eASe' especially ia'ai to the working people 0
me town. kept ins constantly at work; an'
wen or ILL., willing or not, must be ready a
u'rif call / sprang from my warm bed, ant
h'ung up The wlndow-sash, called out, "who'i
mere y
Il You must come directly, sir. to No. 8
'a''.' ia'u' ana see child that lies very
- "e'sa"or pa''n' sur
finy ieP'y' ana smut down The window.
Throwing on my clothes hastily, and a cloak
over all, | hnstened out, and proceeded TO the
house indicated. It was a cold winters morn.
ing, abou, five o'clock. The bitter wind, laden
with sleel, caught me at the street corner, and
made me draw my cloak closer around me-
The factory y-bells were already ringing, and
here and there the huge castles oI factories were
lit up, and poured thousand streams of lioht
into the darkness. The streets were sstjr with
the factory wofkers-men, women and little
girls, who clinked along in pattens through
the wet snow which sprinkled the pround.-
Poor children, thus early Injured 10 the hard
lot of toll what a pileous fate was theirs !,
But tink ling through the air wen, the imporlu-
nate bells OF the factories, and away they must
go. Were they warmly clad We're they
iedt Were they rested-thus early astir, and
exposed to the elemensl But | siinpj my
thoughts and haslened on.
found the house without di(iculty. II was
situated in yard whe.e / had often butore
been, in the course of the las, three months.
called ,l,ith-T by the daiIus Of my proiession.
|Typhus fever in its worse form. had recently
been constant vlsiter Their. Ii was in the
heart of an ill-drained, filthy neighborhood,
exclusively inhabited by working people. The
cutters lay close by the doors, they did not
run, but were slagnant Tor months together.
Ia such place the remedies provided 5y med
lclns have but little avail. The poison held in
solution by the surrounding air baries the mos,
skiliul treatment. and death is almost invaria-
bly, the victor in the contest. Half the children
bora in this district, was assured by men of
long experience, perished under fou. years old;
and the lives Of those who survived were sick
ly,ioyless aud miserable. Life with them was
only long and painful dying.
| found INV lille pa,isn, in ,ba de,,h.,h,oss
I, was a cass of iii. croup of the wars, Kind
The house was cou,fortl..as in tho .x,,ana
few red ciud ers in the grate strugyled tor l;f =.
a cold fire, more cheeress evan than nons a,
all. The furniture of the room iuto which
was usher,d consisted of a ches, of d,,yors
sadly OH, of renair. deal safe. ,b,sn or fan.
rcke,,y chairs, and the miserabls trucLla nm
which the diving child Law. A woodsn ai,b,
of stairs led to a sleepinr anar,ment above-
of the furnishing of which ous mini, farm an
idea from that Of this. The . bs.,n ,n,,,man,
The mother of the child held an inia,, n, eaw
weeks old at her breast. shs was CRYING hitter.
lv. for the sad ,,u,b w,s no, ,o Ia. ,an.a.,ai
from her. Sbswas drasssd IN noor oa,,,an,
patched in manv nlocss. and va, shs wss .,a.n.
liha few ,r,icIas 4, ,ha an,,,,aan, ho,r.
erabe in other respec,s heinz also as cls,n a.
water and scouring c,ulJ mako ,han rha
floor inn was c'ean and f,ssb sandal n, ,.ha,-
aver means than. n;.e,v h.d c,IIan ~, Ill.
bumb,s house. II did no, a, s,., .;,h, .aa,n
10 be- tbe woman's fault: the evidence, Of her
domestic industry wers obvious. nu, ,hs,.
was dismal poyerty; mat wa. ouly too anna.
ruut.
NV ir,.,.s, Il, ,bs mn, wo,. so,,...
wa, erci,ed bv wh,, ! .sw nd sr,., adu'in
i.tsriuy .ome nsdicin, r,om , r.cr., which