The New York herald., 1921-09-04


degrees in arts and science and in the first
two examinations for medical degrees 1t
furnishes well appointed laboratories and
libraries and has comfortable living quarters
for ninety of its students.
The majority Of its graduates become
teachers, and it's faculty is of the general
opinion that teaching is still the best profess
sion open to women in this country
Among the recently inaugurated services
open to women is the women's police force
of the city of London-the women constables
that American visitors may see on duty to-
day in most of the crowded London streets.
There are 100 Of these feminine guardians
of the public welfare, with twelve officers
and at their headquarters at Scotland Yard
we met their chief, Mrs. Stanley a charm
ing and, cultivated woman. She described
their duties as being primarily connected
with women and children and their various
functions as tending to the prevention
rather than to the detection OF crime
In 1914 special conditions arising out of
the war led to the organization by private
enterprise but with the approval OF the au-
thorities, of women patrols. Their chief
fields of usefulness lay in the supervision Of
women and girls in and around the army
centres and training camps and in looking
out for the distracted refugees from Belgium
as they arrived in England.
Later on each war organization OF women
had its own detachment of women patrols
who functoned along the lines of a military
polce-al working under the central gov
authorities
Power of New Women Patrols
Limited to Cooperative Work
After the war various organizations
brought forwa I'd their influence to have
woman's police force Incorporated perma-
nently in the city administration, and Sir
Neville Macready. the present head of the
London police force. obtained the sanction
of the Home Office for the present force of
women patrols. They take the same pre-
liminary training as the men, but they do
not stand on equal terms with them as yet
They are not regularly sworn in to the police
force, nor can they make arrests; they act
rather. as an auxiliary force and work In
cooperation with the many welfare organi-
zations in reference to the rescuing and
care Of women and children.
They are doing a splendid work in that
line and have already brilliantly justified
their existence as factor in municipal adj
minlstration
Baby Week. here has but just gone by,
bringing vvidly to mind that the cause of
infant welfare is one Of the vital causes of
the world. 1t has been pointed out that up
to now the history OF the world has shown
very little organized care for the welfare
of the very young Society IL is true. has
built up the system Of individual homes,
homogeneous in some countries, and polyg-
amous in others. in which the family unit
becomes the shelter for the children but
apart from this the organization of the
business has hardly progressed.
The babies have been left TO the individual
care OF their mothers, and the mothers have
been isolated one from another by the family
system itself. Medical science and research
have only recently begun to assist that very
inadequate thing. maternal instinct and the
public conscience has only recently become
aware OF its common duty toward the young
Within the last century however, things
have been changing, and with the increasing
political and civic power of women they
will change still more.
IL Is no disparagement to men TO say this,
il Is but the normal course of events: and
though, without doubt, many othe.. factors
have contributed to It, it is quite impossible
to deny that medical research, educational
Improvement and domestic hygiene have
advanced side by side with the freedom or
women.
And now. with political enfranchsement.
legislation will move in the same direction.
Equal guardianship, widows pensions. ma
ternity Insurance. these and the other meas
ures designed for infant protection will pays
into law; housing and education will inn
prove, and that worst enemy of child life.