include the early as the late months of pregnancy."

In England little progress has yet been made as regards this
question of rest during pregnancy, even as regards the education
of public opinion. Sir William Sinclair, Professor of Obstetrics
at the Victoria University of Manchester, has published (1907) _A
Plea for Establishing Municipal Maternity Homes_. Ballantyne, a
great British authority on the embryology of the child, has
published a "Plea for a Pre-Maternity Hospital" (_British Medical
Journal_, April 6, 1901), has since given an important lecture on
the subject (_British Medical Journal_, Jan. 11, 1908), and has
further discussed the matter in his _Manual of Ante-Natal
Pathology: The Foetus_ (Ch. XXVII); he is, however, more
interested in the establishment of hospitals for the diseases of
pregnancy than in the wider and more fundamental question of rest
for all pregnant women. In England there are, indeed, a few
institutions which receive unmarried women, with a record of good
conduct, who are pregnant for the first time, for, as
Bouchacourt remarks, ancient British prejudices are opposed to
any mercy being shown to women who are recidivists in committing
the crime of conception.

At present, indeed, it is only in France that the urgent need of
rest during the latter months of pregnancy has been clearly
realized, and any serious and official attempts made to provide
for it. In an interesting Paris thesis (_De la Puericulture avant
le Naissance_, 1907) Clappier has brought together much
information bearing on the efforts now being made to deal
practically with this question. There are many _Asiles_ in Paris
for pregnant women. One of the best is the Asile Michelet,
founded in 1893 by the Assistance Publique de Paris. This is a
sanatorium for pregnant women who have reached a period of seven
and a half months. It is nominally restricted to the admission of
French women who have been domiciled for a year in Paris, but, in
practice, it appears that women from all parts of France are
received. They are employed in light and occasional work for the
institution, being paid for this work, and are also occupied in
making clothes for the expected baby. Married and unmarried women
are admitted alike, all women being equal from the point of view
of motherhood, and indeed the