audience at the outpatients'
department at some of these special hospitals.

No London Hospital for Diseases of Women
and Midwifery (except that of Dr M'Call),
or for Diseases of Children (except one recently
started by women),
or for Diseases of the Eye,
or for Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat,
or for Diseases of the Nervous System,
admits women to its staff, although several of them allow women to
take appointments as clinical assistants, pathologists, anaesthetists,
and other minor posts. Their admission to the full staff is, perhaps,
merely a question of time, and of the naturally slow movement of the
British mind towards admitting women to positions of responsibility.

There has, however, been of late years a tendency on the part of
medical women themselves to take this matter into their own hands, and
new women's hospitals are being started about London where the staff
is exclusively composed of women.

(b) If, on the other hand, the newly qualified doctor decides to
become a general practitioner, her course is much simpler. She takes
such posts as are available, which she thinks will aid her general
knowledge of medicine. Then she selects a neighbourhood, puts up a
plate, and waits.

This course also involves delayed earning capacity, as she must be
prepared to face outlay for several years without much return. During
this time she generally augments the income which she gets from her
private practice by other part-time paid work, notably by giving
lectures in first aid, etc., by school inspection, where part-time
officers are appointed, and other such work. She also generally does
a certain amount of voluntary work on that most pernicious system
of giving her services in order to get known. It is in this way that
doctors are everywhere so terribly exploited. When they are _all_ so
busy doing work which they think will bring them into the public view,
this becomes of no particular use to any of them, and the only people
who benefit, and at the same time scoff, are the members of the
general public, who become so used to getting the doctor to work for
nothing or next to nothing, that it comes as a shock when they have
to pay. It is a healthy sign that the long-suffering doctor is at last
beginning to show symptoms of fight, and in the future it may be
hoped that doctors, like lawyers, will not be required to give their
services free to the commu