Farewell To The East End - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Jennifer Worth (ч. notes)

Notes

1

‘Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.’ George Bernard Shaw. The quote in the chapter title is from Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 3.

2

The Midwives of St Raymund Nonnatus is a pseudonym. I have taken the name from St Raymund Nonnatus, the patron saint of midwives, obstetricians, pregnant women, childbirth and newborn babies. He was delivered by Caesarean section (‘non natus’ is the Latin for ‘not born’) in Catalonia, Spain, in 1204. His mother, not surprisingly, died at his birth. He became a priest and died in 1240.

3

The meaning is too rude to print, but those interested can consult Rude Cockney Rhyming Slang by Jade Janes, published by Abson Books, London, 1971.

4

A full glossary of obstetric terms is included at the back of the book.

5

I have drawn on several sources for this chapter. For more information a full list is given in the bibliography.

6

See Call the Midwife, p. 221.

7

Charles Booth, The Life and Labour of the People of London, Vols. I to IX, The Journals of the Royal Statistical Society, 1887.

8

If you want to know why the mother took that attitude, and how the story ended, you will have to read Call the Midwife!

9

Jane Jordan, Josephine Butler, John Murray, 2000.

10

For this account of the life of Josephine Butler, I have referred to several sources, all of which are detailed in the Bibliography.

11

A lock hospital was the official term for a hospital treating venereal disease. The infected patients could not leave and were locked in. It was effectively a prison.

12

This essay is not intended as a medical analysis of tuberculosis. I am not a doctor and did not train as a tuberculin nurse. It is merely intended to provide an historical background to the story of the Masterton family, for those who may be interested. My main source of information has been the book The White Plague by Ren’ and Jean Dubois, published in 1953 by Victor Gollancz Ltd.