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New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 33

A female lunatic named Eliza McGee, committed at Palmerston North to the asylum on the- certificates of Drs Porter and McKenzie, was brought down on Friday night in charge of Constable Seymour. We have received from the office staff at the Wellington Branch of the Union Steaßn Ship Company a neat card conveying the compliments of the season. We cordially return them the same good wishes. The Mayor (Mr J. Duthie) notifies that during his term of office he will be found daily at 12 o’clock in his office iu the Coancil Chambers, and he hopes that all citizens who wish to see him on municipal business wili try to make it convenient to meet him at that hour.

The serious charge brought by Mrs Lyn Lynton and other powerful writers of the day against university education for women, on the ground of its injurious effect on their physique, merits a serious answer, and gets it in a resume of Dr Emily Pope’s investigations touching tho health of women physicians iu the United States. Out of the 390 qualified ladies in practice in the States in 1881, only 13 reported their health as not good, and only four could trace illness to their professional work. “ Sixty-seven of those who married before and after graduation have, borne healthy ohildren, and in all but two eases the mothers had insisted on them.’’