MRS. KITSON CLARK'S PAPER 111 



then take charge of a branch. All branches are 

 under the superintendent's supervision. This arrange- 

 ment is economical in salaries, but has the disadvan- 

 tage of continual change. We look to our voluntary 

 workers who week by week, and year by year, chart, 

 register, &c., to supply continuity. A central com- 

 mittee composed of representatives of all the branches 

 appoints the staff and administers the funds. Each 

 branch collects subscriptions for the Central Fund, 

 which are placed to its credit. The cost is allocated 

 on the list of attendances. On our council are doctors 

 and other unpaid experts, and there is connected with 

 each branch an honorary doctor. We have opened 

 two new branches since February, and before that, 

 in spite of a severe measles epidemic, our first six 

 months of work showed an increase of 25 per cent, on 

 last year in attendances. 



Amateur and expert are necessary to us ; we are 

 struggling to put into practice expert advice, and to 

 give our poor mothers the benefit of the last teachings 

 of science, and to do this we use the expert women, 

 capable and enthusiastic, but we are dependent on 

 voluntary funds and amateur work. The funds are 

 collected through the widespread interest awakened 

 in our workers who learn as well as teach. There is 

 a valuable exchange of experience, and the well-to-do 

 mother north of the Town Hall learns to know the 

 poor mother in the southern districts, and to be 

 known by her, and a real sympathy is established. 

 In trying to secure health for the rising generation 

 we ordinary women find our vocation. Nature has 

 laid on us the responsibility for the care of young 

 children. In home management a man's ideals must 

 be made effective by a woman's practice. Doctors 

 may reason, but women know. 



