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wear a sheath, but both these methods have the disadvantage of depriving her, as well as her husband, of the full benefit of coitus.

I confess, alas, that I know of no satisfactory method of birth control for the woman herself to use when she has a badly displaced uterus with the cervix low down.

This, of course, is no reflection on the value of contraceptive methods, but merely brings home the fact (which should be selfevident from other points of view) that no woman should be permitted to go about with a badly displaced uterus. I may say that my experience in the last year or two, when I have learnt the history of a number of poor women, has been such as to intensify my horror and amazement at the gross neglect with which the average poor working woman is treated in this connection.

A woman personally known to me, having had five children (which was far more than the weekly earnings of her family were sufficient to support) desired to use birth control methods herself as her husband was negligent, and found the cervix to be badly out of place. I advised her to go into hospital and be operated upon so as to have the uterus restored to its proper position. She