owed
to be present at the meetings of the governing body, and may find
herself dismissed or transferred from a good post to a bad one at
short notice.

The remuneration varies roughly between L250 and L500 a year, with
house but no carriage allowance. The doctor is entitled to add to her
salary by private practice. In some towns this is a considerable
item, whereas in others it is quite negligible. There is no definite
furlough allowance, and the doctor may be removed from her post and
required to keep herself on very little for a considerable period of
time before being appointed to another hospital. All this causes a
severe drain on the resources of doctors without private means. The
staff is also frequently inefficient, and the nursing is sometimes
very indifferent, being undertaken by Eurasian girls under partly
trained women who have never been "home."

In the practice of medicine as in all other branches of women's
labour, the question of the effect of marriage upon work is a very
important and difficult one. In its general aspect it lies at the very
heart of the whole question of the working woman. Its effect on the
medical woman varies according to the branch of her profession which
she selects. If she wishes to become _(a)_ a specialist or _(b)_ a
general practitioner, she has perfect freedom of choice as to what she
will do in the event of marriage; and some women retire while others
continue their work. The latter is a much more desirable course from
the point of view of medical women as a whole. The medical woman who
is married can, better than any one else, render to society certain
services in her profession, and it is desirable that these should not
be lost. In any event no woman need retire from her work on marriage,
though it is, of course, most important that the married medical woman
should not deny to herself and to her husband the normal healthy joy
of having children. To continue in practice, however, while bearing a
child requires a certain amount of expenditure, as such a doctor
will need to retire from practice for at least two or three months,
probably longer, and is therefore put to the expense of engaging a
_locum tenens._ This ought, however, to be possible when both husband
and wife are earning incomes.

From the point of view of society as a whole, it is waste that any one
who has had such a long and arduous training as that required for
the medical profession should not use it in se