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 I am not talking of these cases, or of those which the law of necessity accounts crimes.

I am talking of natural every-day events, of helpable, preventable ills in the homes of the strictly Orthodox, and of the illiterate, of those (the majority of Indians), who do not come in contact in their homes, with the enlightenment and practice and teaching of the West, or of educated Indians, in these matters.

Nor are my facts true of one part of India alone. Instances could be multiplied in every quarter of the country showing similar miscredits and misdebits in our current accounts with life, and health, and sanitation.

Lady Chelmsford's League for Maternal and Child Welfare in India has ascertained that "the death rate in India among mothers at the time of child-birth is infinitely greater than that in any European country. The mortality among infants is twice as high as in England. Each