During pregnancy with my first child, after about three months, I
started with inflammation of the bladder. I happened to be with my
mother at the time, but had it been otherwise I could not have got
anyone to look after me, as my husband was only working two and three
days a week. Of course, my friends would have looked after me, but
everyone is not so fortunate as that. I would have freely died, the
pain was so severe. And whatever maternity benefit a wife and mother
receives, she gets nothing more than she deserves, and I believe they
will get the money as easy as they get the old age pensions, and they
will have less to waste.
_Wages 17s. 6d. to £2; three children._