475), as well as Niven, also asks only for one month's compulsory rest during pregnancy, with indemnity.
Arthur Helme, however, taking a more comprehensive view of all the factors involved, concludes in a valuable paper on "The Unborn Child: Its Care and Its Rights" (_British Medical Journal_, Aug.

24, 1907), "The important thing would be to prohibit pregnant women from going to work at all, and it is as important from the standpoint of the child that this prohibition should include the early as the late months of pregnancy." In England little progress has yet been made as regards this question of rest during pregnancy, even as regards the education of public opinion.

Sir William Sinclair, Professor of Obstetrics at the Victoria University of Manchester, has published (1907) _A Plea for Establishing Municipal Maternity Homes_.

Ballantyne, a great British authority on the embryology of the child, has published a "Plea for a Pre-Maternity Hospital" (_British Medical Journal_, April 6, 1901), has since given an important lecture on the subject (_British Medical Journal_, Jan.

11, 1908), and has further discussed the matter in his _Manual of Ante-Natal Pathology: The Foetus_ (Ch.