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delicate and needs constant care, but being one of nine it is impossible to give it the little luxuries and skilled attention which might make it a healthy child. The third child was born deaf and dumb and died at 2½ years. The fourth child was paralysed and died at eighteen months. Then twins were born and those lived one hour. The next child was born at six months and died. The seventh was born with meningitis and lived eighteen months. The eighth child is very delicate, but that one still lives."

Education of all sorts is being forced on the people in Government schools: it cannot be long before they will learn that such sufferings as these quoted above are not inevitable. Let one of the mothers state her case in her own words. "What I would like to know is how I can save having any more children as I think that I have done my duty to my country having had 13 children, 9 boys and 4 girls. I have 6 boys alive now and I little girl who will be 3 years old in May. I burried a dear little baby girl 3 weeks ago who died from the strain of whooping cough the reason I rite this his I cannot look after the little ones like I would like to as I am getting very stout and cannot bend to bath them and it do jest kill me to carry them in