Isn’t it awful, a woman getting in that state, knowing at any time she might give birth to an innocent little baby? It was not poverty that had brought them to that state, as the man’s earnings were £2 a week, but all the man and woman had thought of was drink. _Wages 36s. to £1; two children._ 157. “THOUGHT WE MUST PUT UP WITH IT.” I must say I have been more fortunate than some of our dear sisters. My husband always saw that I was attended to and did not want for anything. I had very bad times before and after, and was obliged to have help in for several months, and after each turn it left me with something or other. Once I lost the use of one of my hands, and the doctor said it would never get better, but however, I went to another doctor, and he cured me in a few weeks. He said it was the nerves. Our savings in the Stores have been a blessing to us, and helped us over the stile more than once. I often wondered how women could go out to work at those times, when I could not do my own. I firmly believe that if we could get better medical advice beforehand, there would not be so much suffering, and no doubt if I could have got better advice, it would have been better for me. But, of course, I thought we must put up with it, and they would only laugh at me. But however, times have altered, but too late for me. _Wages 20s. and upwards; seven children, one miscarriage._ 158. STRIKES, OUT-OF-WORK, SHORT TIME. I have had nine children. I was two years between my first three babies. I suffered least from these three, but for about six weeks before birth, and six after, I could scarcely get about--pains all over, with a very bad back, and very much swollen legs and feet. Being a little, light-made woman, my confinements were very severe.