WOMEN AND THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Lady Rhondda's speech ; was a larlv interesting contribution to the•«im inir held at lungsway Hall in suppor to a Ministry of Health (says the Weekly"). Dr. Addison, who had mcviously explained the not propose: to proceed by compulsion. This docisioii met with warm appioval. mid Lady Rhondda's remarks caused fionio amusement. Whatever rules and varuhtions may bo bid down in Whitehall, sho said, unless we know ami believo in them and understand (hem, they will become dead letters and half their value will he 104. There are nations 'willing to obey the voice of anthont.x. but we from our childhood, have asked why and we shall never stop asking why "I 'have heard it said that we have a genius for discipline. Wc may have a "eiiius for self-discipline, but I very much doubt if we have a genius for bciiig disciplined from above." Lady Klmnddn smrgesU tlinl in comioction with the Ministry of Health there should be t council. composed of ordinary women— just wives and mothers. "I believe th» would make the Ministry, as it pliould be, a household word throughout tte country."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 8
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191WOMEN AND THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 8
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