The deductions to be made from these dramatic figures is, that although syphilis seems to have about the same effect upon the pregnant, as the non-pregnant woman, it constitutes a serious menace to infant life and health. Accordingly, it is very important that every pregnant woman be given the Wassermann test as early as the third or fourth month, and any woman who gives a positive reaction should be urged to submit to intensive treatment until cured. Her compliance will apparently multiply by seven or eight her expected baby’s chances for life. HEART LESIONS sometimes present grave complications during pregnancy, or at the time of labor, because the damaged or weakened heart is unable to meet the greatly added strain put upon it at these times. Spontaneous, premature labor sometimes results from serious heart trouble, while in some cases labor is artificially induced to relieve the overworked organ of the strain that is evidently exhausting it. Quite obviously it is an important step toward the prevention of both these deplorable occurrences to have the difficulty recognized early. Rest in bed and the same kind of medical treatment that would ordinarily be given for a poorly compensating heart will sometimes enable the disabled organ to carry its load throughout pregnancy. But care is necessary. PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS is so common under all conditions that it is not surprising to find it fairly often among pregnant women. Since the treatment for this disease consists largely of effort to conserve the patient’s forces and build up the bodily resistance, the drain which pregnancy makes upon the system is likely to be inimical to the tuberculous patient’s improvement. It is the general opinion, therefore, that the tuberculous patient grows worse during pregnancy, and is still further weakened by the ordeal of labor and the drain of nursing her baby. Some women with tuberculosis improve during the period of pregnancy, but decline after delivery. The disease may advance rapidly in such cases and the patient succumb very early. There is great reluctance to terminate pregnancy in tuberculous patients, except in extreme cases as a last resort, to save the mother’s life, or when, after the child is viable, its chances for life would seem to be better if it were brought into the world, because of the mother’s possible death. Certain it is that the care which is given to the non-pregnant tuberculous person is needed to an even greater degree by the expectant mother who is suffering from this disease. And under such care, it not infrequently happens that the patient will go through pregnancy safely, and if the care is continued after delivery, and her baby not allowed to nurse, her ultimate recovery does not seem to be retarded by the experience.