Puerperal Temperatures and Their Prevention *Read 9th December 1931.

gradually being tackled and, if possible, set right; arrangements, too, are made for ensuring the attendance at every confinement of a carefully trained and certificated maternity nurse, and, when desired or required, of a qualified physician, while institutional, nursing, and hospital care is also being provided for any specially difficult or dangerous maternity illness. An example of what is required and is now being actually carried out by the Cumberland County Council was recently reported in the Press. " Their scheme for maternity and child welfare is apparently very up-to-date. In addition to providing ante-natal examination for expectant mothers, the scheme provides for the services of a consultant specialist and treatment at hospitals for women under the most modern