is largely academic, if new hospitals were to be built it would be most important. In a way the printer boy played me a trick in my article in the Feb. 22 number, when I was made to say : "The same rate applied to Dr. Rubinow's estimate of 2,250,000 gives 92.97S births for I lie whole population." This is misleading, if 2,250,000 were omitted it would be what 1 intended to say. A careful reading of the whole article should have mnde It clear that 00% of the birth rate of the whole population

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... 55,786: 55,780 4-20 (Dr. Rubinow's divisor) gives 2146: 3566 is 100% of 21*10. Tills to me seems a matter of simple arithmetic.