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their personal lessons, to have also the lessons printed in a 

 short, concise form, which the health visitor could leave 

 for the mother to read. Further than that, it enabled the 

 wife to interest the husband in the lesson she was learning. 



Dr. ADAMSON said he endorsed what had been said about 

 the importance of teaching the mother at an early date 

 what to do during her time of trial, but he thought there 

 was one aspect of the subject which had to a certain extent 

 been overlooked. In the toxsemic conditions they so often 

 found that both mother and child were sacrificed. It might 

 be the first baby, and it might be the second, third or fourth 

 baby, and if the mother died she left behind her a young- 

 family. It was essentially a social question, and he asked 

 them what chance had the children left alone to be brought 

 up of being good citizens without a mother's care and 

 thought. To him that consideration was a most momentous 

 one. He had called attention to it time after time in his 

 reports, and he^ was glad to say that for the last six years 

 he had never once had a death from puerperal fever. It 

 was their duty to go on with this work, and if they failed, 

 then let them try again and again. 



THE IMPORTANCE AND PREVENTION 

 OF EAR DISEASE IN INFANCY. 



BY MACLEOD YEARSLEY, F.R.C.S. 



Senior Surgeon to the Royal Ear Hospital; Otologist to London County Council Deaf 

 Schools, &*c. 



This was not read in his absence for want of time. 



MY first duty is to offer you my thanks for permit- 

 ting- me to contribute a paper to this Conference. You 

 are dealing with a great question, the prevention of 

 infant mortality and the welfare of infancy, and the 

 work upon which I have set my heart is one in which 

 we can be mutually assistant. I am at present helping, 

 to the best of my ability, to promote a great move- 

 ment, the prevention of deafness, initiated by the 

 National Bureau for Promoting the General Welfare 

 of the Deaf. This movement is one in which you 

 can co-operate, for its success will be of material 





