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will to use it. Ante-natal and welfare centres are now provided in almost every district and subsidized by the Government, and they possess almost all the necessary equipment already. The few additions that they would need would be official encouragement, a breath of beauty and inspiration and the determination to have on the regular staff only such medical men (or preferably medical women) as are versed in contraceptive details and who possess so sympathetic a manner and attitude as to encourage the confidences of the timid inquirers who come and need help in the very intimate details which so often surround the problems of contraception and the marital relation.

Medical knowledge pure and simple is for these poor women not sufficient. They need deep personal understanding and help, not only instruction in the use of the method which will secure them freedom from conception, but also sex-lore which might make possible for them something like a normal sex life with their husbands, a happy state of affairs which is so incredibly difficult in the majority of poor homes to-day.

In the present transient stage of British society the one, first, birth control clinic as an independent institution was absolutely necessary. It may not be a permanent