Women on the Prairie 



suggestions. The conditions in the Prairie Pro- 

 vinces are much the same, but as I am writing 

 of Saskatchewan, I will suggest that province 

 setting an example ; and would it not be well 

 for her Legislature to appoint a small committee, 

 quite outside Parliament, composed, say, of three 

 public-spirited women interested in the matter 

 and two men, one of whom might be a medical 

 man ? One of the ladies might act as secretary, 

 and the objects of the commission should be 

 to inquire into and report as soon as possible 

 on the following points : 



1. What can be done to supply adequate 

 medical and nursing facilities (especially in mater- 

 nity cases) for all districts surveyed and thrown 

 open for homestead settlement within the last 

 fifteen years. 



2. What State property there is available in 

 conjunction with local taxation which could be 

 used for this purpose. 



3. The practical machinery for carrying the 

 report into effect. 



Such a committee should have power to co-opt 

 members, say from one to five or seven, in odd 

 numbers, and replace in case of the death of a 

 member or inability to serve from any cause. 



It should not confine its deliberations to Regina, 

 hut should, I think, after obtaining suggestions 



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