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the education of women in India, he 

 points out that the idea of educating 

 Indian women is quite a new thing, and 

 that in consequence the number of girl 

 students is insignificant, the majority 

 of them being Parsees of Bombay. Five 

 years ago there were 348,500 girls who 

 attended school; in January, 191 1, the 

 number had increased to 545,900. The 

 pretensions of most of these pupils are 

 limited to elementary instruction, but a 

 few prolong their studies and even- 

 tually become teachers. Under the in- 

 fluence of Lady Dufferin, an associa- 

 tion was formed in 1890, with the ob- 

 ject of rendering medical aid to Hin- 

 doo and Mussulman women who re- 

 fused the services of men doctors. 

 Twelve months later it numbered 204 

 women students, and in 19 10 there were 

 47 women doctors, 98 assistants, and 

 862 students of medicine, all available 

 for the native women of the country. 

 In February, 191 1, 17 girls, mainly 

 Parsees, passed with success the en- 

 trance exammation to the University of 

 Bombay. In 191 1 the degree of Bache- 

 lor of Arts was conferred on a native 

 woman of Bengal. 



THE MUNICIPAL STEPMOTHER. 



The Englishwoman contains an ar- 

 ticle by Edith J. Macrosty bearing the 

 above title. 



The writer begins by explaining how 

 the real experts, men and women, have 

 by their success called into being a host 

 of false experts, some of whom have 



mastered the theory, but not the prac- 

 tice ; while others, having picked up a 

 few misunderstood scraj')S of science, 

 raise upon this a vast sujierstructure of 

 intrusive legislation. Hitherto the 

 mother has been the guide and guardian 

 of her children, but now for every diffi- 

 culty there is an "expert," always will- 

 ing and sometimes able to give advice 

 on his own special subject The mother's 

 work is to be superseded. Her know- 

 ledge of the body and soul of her chil- 

 dren is to be nugator}- beside the 

 opinion of the expert, who may know- 

 something of children in the mass and 

 on paper. It has been mniputed that 

 out of every 100,000 children born in 

 England, only 75,028 if boys, and 

 78,214 if girls, will be alive at the end 

 of five years. In Sweden, Australia, 

 and New Zealand these mortality rates 

 are nearly halved. How can this differ- 

 ence be accounted for? Mr. John Burns, 

 we are told, recently made a statement 

 to the effect that the greatest reduction 

 in our infant morlalit)- had taken place 

 among the upj^er and middle classes, 

 and he congratulated medical officers of 

 health, sanitary officers, lady health 

 visitors, and voluntary workers on the 

 result. It must be obvious that these 

 workers do not exist to visit the homes 

 of the upper and middle classes. Vet 

 the part played b)' mothers in the re- 

 duction of mortality in theee classes was 

 entirely overlooked and the credit given 

 to others having no part or knowledge 

 of it. 



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