GROWING LIBERTY OF GIRLS.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 May 1919, Page 7

GROWING LIBERTY OF GIRLS.

Dr. Flora Moray, of the Emlell street Military Hospital had often heard it said that during the last -0 to 25 years the physique of woman had improved, but she says this was only a class improvement, and there had not -been a general improvement until the last few years, when women had been able to draw a wage which allowed them to •feed themselves decently, In the ranks of the Q.M.A A.C. there are robust and really healthy girls, but these are usually found to be girls of a higher class, while the average of those from the villages and the towns bear signs of bad housing and under-feeding. Every effort must be made to deliver from the city restaurant the hundreds of thousands of girls whoso crying need is proper food at good prices. What is wanted is a hospital where there is liberty with discipline and where there is a strong esprit do corps Nothing is so much needed in London as a suitable hostel for girls between 16 and 20. a respectable, honest place where they could lodge with safety.