MATERNITY HOMES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 27 April 1906, Page 5

MATERNITY HOMES.

Agrlfai;') > , The vexed .question ofmaterhitV homea fortbe aoaojnmodatibn' of ' single.girls or . << falleh/wpMeu ,,, 'was * placed before' lMfr Seddotf 7 by.'a dep'u- - i '';JESey. f .' said it<se«imed % extraordinaFyito<bim - that'do provision was < f State Maternity for " oases .bf-y: , % this- kindi \tiid' '[mifc thinlc^tlfa. , homes were a,booinp^ public thought they gested,that there added (to the StateVHome "for eijoh,* Vases. C'A,! t t Dr. Edith HunileyViski^tbe^ia-.;-'V teresta of, ohii&rett j* made SMwf: the establishment of a'&omo'^b'ere ; every, woman no, matter,*how.de- ( - graded or how, atiy previo.us lapaea might be charged agqingt her^wodld' meet with o6mpetent. and humane, treatment in her urgent neceaditjr.V' ' , Mr Sedddn, reply, said Jt was ,' most reprehensible that unfortunate' .women should* i l t position tfhey, '/were , in';,W«llj(injkton ■when the/" "'JJegiplaMyo^'^ai^fv'in-.;! i\ tedded that made for them, and had vided the money. - Obnglderlng.thfe f wealth of the oharitable aid district, l < * w'high included the' ' city';-;ancl ; , ; 'the ? '"'. Wairarapa,. there ought toMbe. ample,*' I ■' provision. He wanted.to the : Ohaiitabie lAi,d. iioard. of ; the wealthiesMistriot id'thiQ ooioBJV 1 not /done something" to inept"' ; such emergencies. Tbe | answer was that there was ample" [power and money already provided co meet such The State', Hospitals were intended for oaseß entirely different. 1 . ' Such' oases could ridt be .treated in estate Homes where /respectable women ' were sent; even Jfd/the extent ot ad- , , < ding a wing ftfr- that r - special /purpose. Still, girls who had been misled were entitled'to assistance,. , and no city was- properly equipped wbich'did not, possess an institution for that purpose. 1 Parliament j granted 24s for every pound volua- 1 ' i tarily subscribed and 20s for every pound of rates collected by. the. f local body. Surely the;wealth of the community was , entitled to find' something. It. was the duty. 1 of the-, , - Oharitable Aidvßoard to deal with ' the matter. , ' > > ( <