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AMAND PvOUTH, M.D,, F.E.C.P., ON MOTHERHOOD. 



income, or where the husband had died or was physically or menially 

 incapacitated. Colonel Alves evidently thought that if children 

 were born delicate they could not be reared. This was not so. 

 Dr. Routh had tried to make it clear that the measures he had 

 advocated — viz., medical supervision of expectant mothers, and 

 treatment of the children through the mother during pregnancy — 

 would largely prevent children being born delicate, and the terrible 

 infant mortaUty in the early days and weeks after birth would 

 greatly diminish, together with the unnecessary mortality and 

 morbidity of the mothers which now exist. 



