The infantile mortality of Amsterdam and The Hague is the lowest of any cities in the world, while the general death rate and infantile mortality of Holland has fallen to be the lowest of any country in Europe. These statistics also refute the wild sayings of those who shout against Birth Control and claim it means race suicide. On the contrary, Holland proves that the practice of anti-conceptional methods leads to race improvement, for the increase of population has accelerated as the death rate has fallen. There has also been a rapid improvement in the general physique and health of the Dutch people, while that of the high birth rate countries, Russia and Germany, is said to be rapidly deteriorating. The following figures will suffice to show some of the improvements which have been going on in Holland since 1881, the time the League became actively engaged in the work:— VITAL STATISTICS OF CHIEF DUTCH TOWNS. Taken from Annual Summary of Marriages, Births, and Deaths in England and Wales, etc., for 1912. AMSTERDAM (Malthusian League started 1881; Dr. Aletta Jacobs gave advice to poor women, 1885). 1881–85. 1906–10. 1912. Birth Rate 37·1 24·7 23·3 per 1,000 of population. Death Rate 25·1 13·1 11·2[1] 〃 〃 Infantile Mortality 203 90 64[1] per 1,000 living (deaths in first births. year) THE HAGUE (now the headquarters of the Neo-Malthusian League). 1881–85. 1906–10. 1912. Birth Rate 38·7 27·5 23·6 per 1,000 of population. Death Rate 23·3 13·2 10·9[1] 〃 〃 Infantile Mortality 214 99 66[1] per 1,000 living (deaths in first births. year) ROTTERDAM. 1881–85. 1906–10. 1912. Birth Rate 37·4 32·0 29·0 per 1,000 of population. Death Rate 24·2 13·4 11·3 〃 〃 Infantile Mortality 209 105 79 per 1,000 living births. Footnote 1: These figures are the lowest in the whole list of death rates and infantile mortalities in the summary of births and deaths in cities in this Report. FERTILITY AND ILLEGITIMACY RATES.