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 year India loses two million babies, and many others only survive to grow up weakly and feeble owing to inattention and bad hygienic surroundings during their infant days."

What are you and I going to do about this?

We cannot, any of us, escape responsibility, once we know the condition of things.

I speak to you Englishwomen—Mothers and wives who love your homes and your children, who are able to give them all that modern knowledge and skill and science can devise.

What are you going to do about this?

I speak to you first, because you best can guagegauge [sic] the harm which is being done to children and to child-mothers, and because there is in your hearts—whether born of intelligence and civic persuasion, or of religion—the conviction that we are indeed "the keepers" of every other member of the human family.