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as an ordinary quarto sheet of typewriting paper. They are so arranged as to be folded backwards in half and filed with the folded edge uppermost, which gives each the necessary stability to form a convenient file on the card index system, and also makes it possible for the nurse to withdraw the record from the file on a second visit from the patient and consult it without the patient perceiving the nurse's more intimate comments on the case which are folded on the inner side.

As it is possible that those who practise among the wealthy classes may have forgotten their student training in the slums, and still feel that birth control information is not required, the following few sample letters from among our many hundreds are selected as typical of the misery and anguish, to say nothing of the national wastage involved when working women are left unaware of methods to control their conceptions; other cases have been given on pp. 29 and 368.

No. C.C. 10. "After reading Lloyd's News^[1] to-day, I felt I must sit down and ask your help. I cannot get down to you, or I would like to. Birth Control I cannot understand. I am the mother of ten, nine born alive, one premature through the