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Dr. Marie Stopes has asked me to state how her valuable little book will help the Medical Officer of the smaller English counties. Unlike his brother in the larger cities, who is an office worker and statistician, he comes into intimate clinical contact with his neighbours from their birth, or before, to their death. His duties comprise those undertaken in the larger counties by specially appointed infant welfare officers, school medical officers, tuberculosis and venereal diseases officers, and officers under the Mental Deficiency Act. He is written to on every conceivable subject. My own post-bag has contained letters asking me to give the writers information on the servant question, on the method of trepanning adopted in Neolithic times, on the advisability of my tuberculous or syphilitic