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of school age under the State. In answer to the New York- 

 doctor, he would suggest there was a very fitting point 

 where he could co-ordinate all the social workers. There 

 would be social workers until the end of time and they 

 could all hope they would multiply. In religion they had 

 all kinds of Churches and they were multiplying every day. 

 Years ago they laughed at the Salvation Army, but that 

 body had done an- immense amount of good. All this work 

 must, in his opinion, be co-ordinated through the medical 

 officer of health. Of course, the work could not be done 

 by that officer, but would be done by the official of the 

 particular department. He might give as an example the 

 case of Toronto. There the health officer had co-ordinated 

 all the tuberculosis work under a lady, and she had qualified 

 nurses well adapted to carry on the work, and she was 

 doing excellent work and finding social workers willing to 

 engage in this particular work. Then as to sanitary science 

 in Ontario, which was certainly an English-speaking pro- 

 vince, the Provincial Government gave aid to certain insti- 

 tutions which came up to a certain standard; and, further, 

 their municipalities assisted work of this kind. He thought 

 that no nation could spend money better or more wisely 

 than for such purposes. It was along preventive lines that 

 they ought to work, for it meant that the more they spent 

 on the mother and child the less they would have to spend 

 on their workhouses and infirmaries. This was wise 

 economy. He would like to say one more word 

 with regard to stillbirths. It had been his fortune 

 to be a Registrar-General, and he had always put 

 forward the view that stillbirths should be registered. When 

 the law was in act of revision in Ontario he had to appear 

 before the Court of Judges and discuss this very question 

 of registration, and his contention then was that a birth 

 was a birth, whether it was a stillbirth or not, and therefore 

 ought to be registered. He also claimed that it should be 

 registered as a death or otherwise it should not be buried. 

 That was the law in Ontario to-day. The body could only 

 be buried in the cemetery on presentation of a doctor's 

 certificate. It was quite evident that (there was a difference 

 of opinion on this point, but he did not think the difference 

 was very great. The other point on which there had been 

 a great deal of discussion was that of exercise, and the 

 question was raised as to what was exercise. The man 

 who went out on horseback every morning did so for 

 exercise. The lady took a walk with a little dog, and that 

 was her exercise. But the woman less fortunately cir- 

 cumstanced in life had to go to a factory and that was 



