The Nursing School and Public Health Nursing *Being an address delivered at the Fifth Annual Lecture at the Delhi Maternity Service Co-ordinating Committee.

I am very much honoured by the invitation of the Delhi Maternity Service Co-ordinating Committee to give its fifth annual lecture. I feel particularly humble when I realize that previous lecturers have included such illustrious individuals as General Jolly, Colonel Lazarus and Dr. Balfour, especially in view of my short experience in India. However, quite apart from that, I feel it is of more than passing significance that you have chosen a nurse as your speaker this year. Therefore, I shall take this opportunity to thank you for this honour on behalf of the nursing profession in India, and also to congratulate you as a group which realizes that the nursing profession can be helpful in furthering your aims. In her letter asking me to be your speaker Dr. Pandit says : ' The Delhi Maternity Service Co-ordinating Committee was originally organized to bring medical and public health services in the field of maternity and child welfare, closer.' This is a subject of which I am very fond. Co-ordination?joint activity?is one of the