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of great care and nursing to get them right and it is only a month ago I had them declared free from all signs. Now baby is under suspicion. I am so afraid of conception I cannot bear for my husband to even speak kindly to me, or even put his hand on my shoulder for fear he wants his rights. And it causes a lot of anger and misery. It is two months since I last allowed him intercourse, and many times it is much longer. I may say I am 37 years old last July and in each confinement I have been told I was not a fit or strong enough woman to have children." [And she was left ignorant.] "Do please help me if you can."

The following letter also is unfortunately not an account of a unique experience: ". . . a doctor whom, at my wife's request, I asked to provide the necessary article, charged me £1 1s. for ridiculing our request and advising us to scratch for however many children arrived, like the hen does for her chicks."

And one's heart is wrung by such cases as C. D. 1054, supplied to me by the medical practitioner who attended her end. She was married young to a man with syphilis and she had in all twenty-four miscarriages and then died of paralysis of the lower half of the body.