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Full Title	In times of peril : leaves from the diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter week, 1916, to Mountjoy, 1921 / edited by Annie M.P. Smithson.
Author	Kearns, Linda.
Contributor	Smithson, Annie M.P. De Valera, Eamon, 1882-1975.
Date Added	4 February 2016
Format	Book
Language	English
Publish Date	1922
Publisher	Dublin : Talbot Press ; London : T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.,
Source	Joseph McGarrity Books.
Topic	Kearns, Linda. Prisoners > Ireland > Diaries. Nurses > Biography. Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916.
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OCR CHAPTER VI. LIFE IN WALTON CONVICT PRISON. I knew that I was getting very weak, and as I had complained of the food I was brought before the members of the Prison Committee. Amongst other things I complained that I had found a very large worm in the boiled cabbage of the previous day. I will give the Chairman’s reply to me in his OWI1 words. “ Oh I” said this gentleman, “ you got more than you were entitled to, then! Why, you got meat as well as Vegetable 1” The British have a very refined sense of humour. I refused to wash in the baths that were in constant use by the Other women prisoners--healthy and unhealthy alike. As a trained nurse I knew very well that some of these women were being treated for venereal diseases, and I knew that they used the same baths as the others. The same Chairman of whom I have already spoken told me that if I was at home every individual mem- ber of my family would not have a bathroom to themselves, and also that if I was at a hotel I could not have a bathroom for my sole use. It was not much good to try to explain to this man that the members of my family were not of the same class as the convicts of England, and that neither would respectable hotels be frequented, as a rule, by such. I did not really blame the Chairman so much in the matter, as I believe he was of the type of Britishel‘ who considers any treatment good enough for an Irish “ rebel.” But I certainly do blame very severely some of the ladies on the Committee with whom I had gone into matters very thoroughly, and 41

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