On March 12th a large ulcer appeared on each labium following a bullous upheaval and casting off of the epidermis, and at the same time the skin over the trochanteric region on each side commenced to necrose. The œdema had involved the whole of the lower extremities, the affected parts being pale and flecked with blue; small bladders filled with yellow serum appeared on the dorsal surface of each foot. Fresh areas of necrosis developed. The ulcers on the labia turned black. On March 15th the child died, with symptoms of meningitis. A post-mortem examination was not allowed. The author discusses the differential diagnosis between erysipelas and œdema neonatorum. He quotes a passage from Strümpell, as well as a case of his own, to show that fever sometimes appears after the eruption in erysipelas. He further records the fact that there had been a great deal of infectious illness in the house before the birth of this child—severe measles, whooping-cough complicated by empyema, ulcerated throats with otitis media—whilst the mother developed parametritis on the second day. W. B. W. Transcriber’s Notes: Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The British Journal of Dermatology, April 1905, by Various