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authority With tireless importunity they obtained for their Villages those public services which are now taken for granted: the scene would have been very different today had the W1. members not pOSSCSS€d that gad-fly persistence which every Authority has come to recognise as unrelenting. Two achievements stand out: a review, among 14 members, of conditions under which country mothers bore their children at home, was pressed home in the In»Basl<ets of \Vhitehall and the boon of analgaesia, operated by the Village Nurse, is the direct outcome. And under Lady Denman's especial guidance the Institute movement asked repeatedly for improved facilities for the education