The Women's Health Association lobbied for measures in the 1903 Public Health Act to protect the lives of illegitimate babies whose mortality rate was more than double that of babies born to married couples. When the Act failed to make provision for inspection and advice giving to women who boarded the babies of single mothers, some members of the Women's Health Association formed the Children's Protection Society to campaign for greater stringency.
In the post World War One period, the Women's Health Association campaigned for women to sit on juries and to be appointed as magistrates in cases involving women and children. The Attorney-General, WB Propsting, who drew up the 1918 Children of the State Act, opposed the idea to some extent, especially women sitting on juries for sex offences. However, he made provision in the Act for special women magistrates to preside in children's courts.
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