Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example, goodwill, good-will; syntonised; moiety; hebetude; sempstress. Pg 96: ‘to the lattter’ replaced by ‘to the latter’. Pg 157: ‘country districs’ replaced by ‘country districts’. Pg 176: ‘proved that that the’ replaced by ‘proved that the’. Pg 192: ‘quantity of knowlege’ replaced by ‘quantity of knowledge’. Pg 199: ‘enlightenmeut of children’ replaced by ‘enlightenment of children’. Pg 221: ‘first convicion for’ replaced by ‘first conviction for’. Pg 228: ‘stands constrasted’ replaced by ‘stands contrasted’. Pg 265: ‘In this conn e ton’ replaced by ‘In this connection’. Pg 271: new Index entry for ‘Artificial feeding’ inserted. End of Project Gutenberg's The Elements of Child-protection, by Sigmund Engel