OVERWORKED MOTHERS.
PETITION BY DOCTORS. IMMIGRATION OF SUITABLE GIRLS. (By TcleirraDh—Press Association.) Christchurch, May 25. A number of medical practitioners in Christchurch have signed a petition to the Prime Minister regarding the urgent necessity that exists tor obtaining more girls to assist over-worked mothers in the province. The petition states that tho doctors who have signed it could' -testify to the great injury caused to thehealth of these mothers by the difficulty or impossibility of getting servants. This loss of health" not only shortened the lives of mothers, but reacted disastrously on the children, especially during their early years, whan so much cure was required. They therefore felt it their duty to support as strongly as'they could tho efforts of the Ladies' Committee now engaged in promoting tho immigration of suitable girls, especially from Norway aud tho country districts of Great Britain and Ireland. They believed such action would greatly tend to benefit tho health of women and children in New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 6
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