I have had a very large family (fifteen). Out of all these confinements
I have only had my husband in work at the time twice. Several times he
was sick, and other times it was hard winters, and as he was in the
building trade, he could not work if very frosty or very wet, so you
will see that I have known what it was to be often very short. With
this result, that when my sixth child was born, my health failed, which
would not have been the case if I had not had to go short. I also had
so much worry, and was unable at the time of carrying the child to have
any help, however poorly I felt. For a number of years I was in a very
weak state of health, which the doctor said was the result of not being
properly looked after.
_Wages 24s. and upwards; fifteen children._