DR. BARBARA SUTHERLAND'S PAPER 



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surely it is at least desirable that these few should 

 have been included. 



The summary of the above-mentioned 137 non- 

 insured is as follows : 



Illegitimate 



" Own Master " 



Foreigners 



Policemen 



Hawkers 



Husband abroad 



,, dead 



Post Office employees 

 Husband ill and 



employed ... 

 Soldiers 



Corporation employees 

 Husband in prison ... 



in desertion i Total 137 



One special case is worthy of mention here. A 

 woman who had been an employed contributor 

 married a non-insured man and continued as a volun- 

 tary contributor ; before she had been insured for 

 fifty-two weeks she gave birth to a child, and so 

 received no maternity benefit ; whereas, had she still 

 continued as an employed contributor, though un- 

 married, she would have been entitled both to 

 maternity benefit and sickness benefit, as she had 

 already paid more than twenty-six contributions. 



In many of our cases both parents were insured, 

 and, while the husband's Society paid the maternity 

 benefit, the woman's Society paid sickness benefit 

 for two weeks preceding and two weeks following 

 confinement, so that the total amount received for one 

 normal confinement amounted to 6os. 



Payment of Benefit. So far as our information 

 goes maternity benefit is almost always paid as 

 money to the husband in cases where he is insured. 

 In very few cases the Insurance Society has retained 



