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said she had wanted to get this done and had been to two hospitals, at both of which the doctors had laughed at her and said that as she could go about they would do nothing as there were thousands of women worse than she and they had no time to attend to such comparative trivialities. The "triviality" in this case involved this poor working woman in a back-ache so continuous that she had to stop two or three times a day in the middle of her work nearly crying with the dragging pain to snatch a few moments lying down. She also ran the continued risk of further pregnancies owing to the impossibility of any cheap and simple method of contraception being of any use to her.

While it seems to me revolting that any diseased person should either indulge in or be called upon by another to co-operate in the coital act, nevertheless it is useless to disguise the fact that it is done with extreme frequency. Where the disease is local and contagious, as are either of the venereal diseases, there is no doubt that the condom by the male or the feminine sheath by the woman, should be used, and these