Maternity: Letters from Working-Women
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES
INTRODUCTION
LETTERS FROM WORKING-WOMEN.
2. “Out of Bed on the Third Day.”
3. Hospitals—A Crying Need.
4. “All Day Washing and Ironing.”
5. A Half-Starved Pregnancy.
6. Healthy and Strong.
7. “She is Real Ill.”
8. Men Need Education.
9. Bad Confinements.
10. “I am a Ruined Woman.”
11. “I was Awfully Poor.”
12. “I Dragged about in Misery.”
13. “Very Fortunate.”
14. Inflammation.
15. “Oh, the Horrors we Suffer!”
16. “A Nightmare Yet.”
17. Lack of Food and Bad Housing.
18. Astonishing Health.
19. “Kept All to Myself.”
21. How a Woman may Suffer.
22. “Got on Splendidly.”
23. “One of the Fortunate.”
24. Utterly Overdone.
25. Three Children in Three Years.
26. “Such is the Life of Poor Women.”
27. Worked up to the Last.
28. Heavy Expense of Childbirth.
29. “I am Nearly Used Up.”
30. “Mother Last.”
31. Little To Tell.
32. Restriction Advocated.
34. Delicate Children.
35. Continual Pregnancy for Fifteen Years.
37. Against Large Families.
38. “Other Children with Measles.”
39. Benefit from Hearts of Oak.
40. Neglect by Doctors.
41. Over-Child-Bearing.
42. “Constant Care and Help.”
43. Bad Experiences.
44. “An Indomitable Will.”
45. “Mock Modesty.”
46. A Healthy Mill-Worker.
48. “A Time of Horror.”
49. Very Hard Times.
50. A Farm-Worker’s Wife.
51. Shun Patent Foods.
52. “Get Very Little Pity.”
53. Work in the Mill.
54. In Favour of Breast-Feeding.
55. Mixed Experiences.
56. Twelve Children.
57. Dreadful Sufferings.
58. Inefficient Doctor.
59. Household Help Needed.
60. Miscarriages.
61. A Very Sad Case.
62. State Maternity Homes Wanted.
64. “Best of Times are Bad.”
65. Every Attention.
66. Very Good Health.
67. “A Steady and Regular Income.”
68. “Read, Studied, and Took Care.”
69. Preventives.
70. The Teaching of Experience.
72. Loss of Strength.
73. Suffering and Hard Work.
74. “Heavy Wash-Days.”
75. Bad Effects of Hard Work.
76. Amongst Strangers.
77. Care and Attention.
78. Weakness following Pregnancy.
79. Frequent Pregnancies.
80. Husband on Short Time.
81. Convulsions.
82. “Every Care on Every Occasion.”
83. A Wage-Earning Mother.
84. “Two Children under the Year.”
85. Effects of Worry.
86. “Not Much Strength Left.”
87. Struggles of a Miner’s Wife.
88. “Did not Like to say Anything.”
89. A Brutal Husband.
90. “I Overdid Myself.”
91. “Better to have a Small Family.”
92. Ignorance.
93. Out-of-Door Exercise Every Day.
94. “Given Anything to have a Good Sleep.”
95. “Husband who was Nurse and Mother.”
96. Injury at Confinement.
97. Childless.
98. “I Simply Struggled On.”
99. Story of a Confinement.
100. A Wreck at Thirty.
101. Two Children in Eighteen Months.
102. Need for Nourishment after Confinement.
103. Her “Lot.”
104. Need of Rest.
105. “Never Lost a Moment’s Sleep.”
106. “I was locked up in a Morning.”
107. “Felt Like Giving in Altogether.”
108. Extra Well.
109. Work in a Brickyard.
110. Husband with Typhoid Fever.
111. “Too Exhausted to Eat.”
112. Thirteen Births and Four Miscarriages.
113. An Agricultural Labourer’s Daughter.
114. “No Rest for Mothers, Night or Day.”
115. Proper Care.
116. Eight Miscarriages.
117. Need for Municipal Midwives.
118. Easy Circumstances.
119. Nothing Unusual.
120. Sock-making at Twopence a Pair.
121. Natural Times.
122. Ironing and Kneading in Bed.
123. Tea and Sugar put away.
124. Six to Feed on Sixteen Shillings.
125. “Worked Too Hard as a Girl.”
126. A Strong Woman.
127. Wine Lodges should be Closed.
128. “Often went Short of Food.”
129. An Agricultural Labourer’s Wife.
130. Ten Shillings coming in for Twelve Weeks.
131. Consoled Herself with an Orphan Boy.
132. “The Terrible Suffering I endured.”
133. Maternity Benefit “intended for Themselves.”
134. An Awful Struggle.
135. Rag-Sorting.
136. “I Wonder how I Lived.”
137. Five Still-Births.
138. A Weaver.
139. Drugs.
140. Got up the Fifth Day.
141. A Family of Fifteen.
142. “Much Depends on the Husband.”
143. Problem of Housework.
144. Bad Medical Attendance.
145. Illness Costing nearly £20.
146. Specialist’s Advice Needed.
147. A Small Private Income.
148. “Nine Months of Misery.”
149. Every Help.
150. “Should never have had Children.”
151. Systematic Preparation.
152. “Had to go out to Clean and Paper.”
153. “A Troublesome Life.”
154. Cases of Labourers’ Wives.
155. Forty-seven Nieces and Nephews.
156. “A Law to Stay in Bed Ten Days.”
157. “Thought we must put up with it.”
158. Strikes, Out-of-Work, Short Time.
159. Rest and Good Food.
160. “Eight to Keep on Eleven Shillings and Threepence.”
METHOD OF INQUIRY
OCCUPATIONS OF HUSBANDS
FIGURES BEARING ON INFANT MORTALITY
SUMMARY OF THE NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS (EXTENSION) ACT, 1915
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS (EXTENSION) ACT, 1915
ADMINISTRATIVE POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Government Grants.
FOOTNOTES
Transcriber's Note
