Firstly the wage-earner who falls ill gets less attention than when he is well. Money has to be obtained somehow and if the man is ill the woman must work. The bare existence level for a man and wife and three children is now about three pounds per week. "If this cannot be borrowed, has not been saved up or isn't coming in as sick benefit, the woman, if she has no trade, will have to go out charing or doing the rough heavy work that the domestic servant in a large house objects to. She will get up at about 5 a.m. and do such work as she can in her own home, see to the children, and cook some food for the invalid, to be warmed up during the day, then hurry off to her long day of exhausting toil, coming back to finish her own work and do her shopping in the evening. If she has been a machinist she will have little difficulty in getting back her place in a factory, and should she posses her -own sewing machine she may even' get some work to bring home. The next door neighbour will keep the key of the house and let the doctor in when he visits the patient and also look in once or twice to see if anything is wanted.
pecially nourishing food for the invalid is out of the question; if rest and the "bottle" from the doctor won't cure him the wife will be relieved from the problem of her support by his departure to "that bourne from which no traveller returns." Nourishing food and good nursing would be the main factors in putting the sick man on his feet again and making him once more a useful member of the community.
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