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gratuitously." "Now when information is asked by post we send in suitable cases the practical leaflet giving a minute description of all methods of prevention. We send it cost free and post free to every sincere applicant giving his address and the names of himself and his wife (or herself and her husband); we send it as printed matter that cannot be opened by the way. Last year we spread 5,600 copies in Dutch, and many also in foreign languages."

The nurses at the various Dutch clinics not only advise individual women as to the best method to employ, but also supply them with a well-fitted pessary, and teach them how to adjust, remove, cleanse and care for it, and for this make only a nominal charge of about half a crown. They advise also against abortion and the use of drugs, and give general instruction in sexual hygiene.

It seems a very remarkable thing that clinics which have been so successful have not been universally adopted by all civilized countries.

The American attempt to imitate them in 1916 was at once stopped by the police, and when I visited New York in 1921 and spoke at an influential private meeting, although a sufficient sum was subscribed