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Case C. 221.—Woman very delicate, warned against pregnancy by more than one doctor. Fourteen times pregnant between 1900 and 1921. Nine children born alive of whom four died; five miscarriages. After the last miscarriage had been nine weeks in hospital.

Case C. 866.—Age 40, looks older, sight very bad. Hates and loathes the sight of her husband who gives her no peace. Has been seventeen times pregnant between the years 1903 and 1922. Pregnancies as follows: the first three children lived, then followed one who. died a few months after birth, two who died at birth, one bad miscarriage. Of the remaining ten pregnancies only four lived, and three were born at eight months, two of these lived a few hours and one lived ten months. From the total seventeen pregnancies, only seven living children resulted.

Case C. 456.—Very fertile, had four children in five years: husband says he "has only to look at her and she is pregnant." Had used withdrawal and douching, both of which failed. At the first pregnancy instruments were used and the perineum torn, at the second chloroform and instruments, and the third was a twilight sleep case and the child (♀) lived