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Before indicating the ideal, or even describing the actual, birth control clinic in this country some further mention ought to be made of the pioneer Dutch clinics already noted in the historical section.

In Holland the first birth control clinic in the world was founded and carried on by Dr. Aletta Jacobs (see also p. 297 ante) and arising out of this grew a widely-extended service of clinics, staffed with specially trained nurses, in a large number of Dutch towns. In a recent letter to me, Dr. Rutgers of the Dutch League wrote: "In all large towns we have sub-divisions, as local centres for spreading knowledge. 7,000 members support us by their annual contributions. Moreover, we have educated many nurses to help women in the application of appliances, who give their consultation hours (at our clinics) where well-to-do people pay full, and poor people are helped for less, and even in some cases