Maternity

About this eBook

Editor

Women's Co-operative Guild

Title

Maternity: Letters from Working-Women

Credits

Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Maternal and infant welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50077

Release Date

September 29, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MATERNITY LETTERS FROM WORKING-WOMEN
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.PREFACE BY THE RIGHT HON. HERBERT SAMUEL, M.P.
4. 4.CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.LETTERS FROM WORKING-WOMEN. — 1. Twenty Years of Child-Bearing. — 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. ” — 20. Stead’s Penny Poets. — 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. — 33. “ Almost a Wreck. ” — 34. Delicate Children. — 35. Continual Pregnancy for Fifteen Years. — 36. Many Miscarriages. — 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. — 47. “ I Think a Lot. ” — 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. — 63. “ A Miserable Experience. ” — 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. — 71. “ But it is too Late. ” — 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. ”
7. 7.METHOD OF INQUIRY — OCCUPATIONS OF HUSBANDS
8. 8.FIGURES BEARING ON INFANT MORTALITY — Still-births and Miscarriages. — Infant Deaths.
9. 9.LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD MEMORANDUM MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
10. 10.SUMMARY OF THE NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS (EXTENSION) ACT, 1915
11. 11.NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS (EXTENSION) ACT, 1915 — Notification of Births Act, 1907, to extend to every District. — Administrative Arrangements under the Act. — Co-operation with Medical Practitioners and Voluntary Agencies. — London. — Grants in Aid of Local Expenditure. — Interim Schemes. — Present Need for Maternity and Infant Welfare Work. — Committees.
12. 12.ADMINISTRATIVE POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES — Notification of Births. [C] — Women Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors. — Maternity Centres. — Supervision of Midwives. — Professional Attendance at Confinements. — Maternity Hospitals for Complicated Cases and Infant Hospitals. — Milk Depots. — Government Grants.
13. 13.NATIONAL SCHEME PROPOSED BY THE WOMEN’S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD — FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note

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