tion, but Dr. Pinard, the celebrated accoucheur, who is to be president of the obstetric section in the International Med¬ ical Congress, opposed the measure on the ground that it would be fraught with danger, as the antiseptic precautions necessary to vaccinate without incurring any risk could hardly be ex¬ pected on the part of men who had had no medical instruction. A law rendering vaccination obligatory would be much more efficacious. A new sanitary law is under consideration by the Senate,

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... and in Article 6 of the first paragraph the following regulation is laid down: "Vaccination is obligatory during the first year after birth, the eleventh and the twenty-first. Parents or guardians are held responsible as to the carrying out of this rule." Moreover, compulsory disinfection will be re¬ sorted to if necessary. Dr. Hervieux spoke recently of the outbreak of smallpox in Madagascar. The mortality, it would seem, is quite high.