NATIONAL HOMESTEADS
WELFARE OF YOUNG MOTHERS (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, August 5 National homesteads for young mothers and babies are suggested in the British Medical Journal by Dr. G. S. Williamson, and recorded in the Evening Standard. “Would it not be well,” he asks, “that these young mothers should devote the whole of their energies and their attention, after the disruption of their homes and the departure of their husbands, towards the preservation of the health of their children?” The homesteads should, he proposes, consist of 23 mothers with their accompanying 35 to 40 children. Each should comprise 50 acres of land and be stocked with ten tuber-culin-tested dairy cows, 75 chickens, 20 geece and ducks, and four or five pigs. There should be four or five acres of kitchen garden and about 12 arable acres, with the necessary pasture. At the homesteads the mothers should learn food production, milking, butter-making, care of poultry, gardening and how to avoid waste. They would be visited by welfare advisers.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 10
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168NATIONAL HOMESTEADS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 10
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