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satisfactorily trained in foreign schools, with diplomas, and 

 included in their training, of course, is training in antiseptic 

 and aseptic midwifery practice, abandon the requirements here. 

 They have perhaps sterilizers, but they do not use them. There 

 is no supervision of their work so that they do not even live up 

 to the training which they already have. I wish to emphasize 

 the great importance in this movement for the prevention of 

 infant mortality of this midwifery question. It is a compli- 

 cated and difficult one,, but it is one of the questions which must 

 be met and I am very glad indeed that a call has been made 

 for a discussion of the subject tomorrow morning. 



We shall proceed now with the program, and I shall call 

 upon the first speaker, Dr. Wilbur. Dr. Wilbur has done more 

 to further that cause which lies at the foundation of public health 

 and preventive medicine vital statistics than anyone else in 

 the country. It is therefore with great pleasure that I introduce 

 Dr. Wilbur. 



