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 Women have to be taught about the need for help, and have to be persuaded to desire help. They have to be persuaded without affront to religious prejudice, without accusation of the past. Pamphlets must be translated into the vernacular, facts must be collected as to unhygienic conditions and dangerous custom, all the country over.

Among the English-speaking, the Brahmo or progressive Hindu communities, there is surely work also to be done. For neither schools nor municipalities have, in the past, given adequate thought to these matters.

Work for these persons may take the form of persuading to attendance at Health Centres, or to the ministrations in their homes, of the health supervisor.

Many other ways will be indicated by Lady Cheimsford's League which has its Headquarters at Viceregal Lodge, Delhi.