My case was rather an extraordinary one, and emphasises that the
National Care of Maternity ought to be brought into force at once.
Through no fault of my own, I suffered from St. Vitus’s dance, caused
through pregnancy, and was under three local doctors, and also engaged
a trained nurse, but at the last moment they decided I must go into
hospital, as my case was so bad. The physician said that in a case
like mine local doctors were not worth six a penny, and if I had gone
to hospital at the commencement, I would never have got to the state
in which I unfortunately was. The local doctors told me I could not
be cured until the child was born, but the physician in hospital said
it was ridiculous. If I had gone four months earlier, I could have
been cured, and come home for the child to be born. I had no mother to
give me advice, and the same makes me very strongly in favour of Moral
Hygiene being taught in schools, so as not to leave girls ignorant of
the functions of pregnancy and motherhood. Cases like mine should be
brought to light in order that some poor souls in the future will be
saved from going through the same as I did.
_Wages 27s. 6d.; one child._