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trained at —— Hospital fifteen years ago. I married my first husband, a dentist, on completion of my training. I had a very serious premature seven months' child the second year of my first married life. Then one year eight months after I had my little boy. He is now 10½ years. Then one year eight months after I had my little girl. She was a posthumous child born six months after my husband died. Fifteen months after the death of my first husband I married this second one, a school friend of the first, now 54 years. He had previously been married to his first wife twenty-three years and never at any time had they any children or even signs of any. I married him in 1913 and in spring 1916 I had a little daughter, and in November, 1918, another. It causes a lot of unpleasantness. My husband is a middle-aged man and a bad heart case and not at all strong (and by the way out of work two months now). I am in very bad health now, debility, tubercular and heart trouble. I have been under treatment the last six years. What right have we to bring children into the world? It takes me all I know to do the ordinary housework of a small house and keep the little ones clean. The boy and girl have had phthisis and it has taken me five years