The use of motor trucks for dispensaries or clinics seems to be increasing rapidly. A number of traveling tuberculosis, dental, child welfare, and baby clinics are reported from many parts of the country, not only for rural districts but for large cities. Some of these dispensaries on wheels are intended chiefly to provide service, that is, to examine people, rather than for the purpose of publicity or education. In this case the truck is simply a convenient method of extending clinical work to districts that have no dispensaries, or to the homes of patients who cannot or will not go to the dispensary. But even where service is the main purpose, these trucks are of value educationally, particularly in this early stage of their use when their novelty attracts attention to the clinics. Other traveling dispensaries are intended chiefly to demonstrate to the community the need of establishing, permanently, some such service as the dispensary gives during its brief stop-over. CLEVELAND CHILDREN’S YEAR SPECIAL A traveling truck dispensary was adopted as a feature of the Children’s Year by the Children’s Year Committee of the Cleveland Council of Defense. Mr. J. Dean Halliday, Director of the Bureau of Health Education of the Cleveland Department of Health, who planned the construction of the truck and directed its use later, had charge of a similar campaign for the American Red Cross Tuberculosis Commission in Italy. The type used both in Cleveland and in Italy[5] as shown in several illustrations (see cuts opposite pages 28 and 30) has side tents, which, when set up, provide fair-sized rooms. The tent on the left was used as a waiting and dressing room for the mothers who brought babies for examination; that on the right as lecture and exhibit room. Here posters and model outfits for the baby were displayed and literature was given away. The body proper built on the carriage of a large army truck was fitted out as a model dispensary with examining tables, scales, measuring stands, desk, cabinet for supplies, electric lights, and hot and cold water. The equipment included a screen and motion picture machine which could be set up on top of the truck for evening programs. In Cleveland the truck was driven by members of a volunteer women’s motor corps organization, uniformed for the purpose and carried a physician, a nurse, and a sanitary patrolman, all assigned from the Health Department. [Illustration: CLEVELAND CHILDREN’S YEAR SPECIAL Interior of truck fitted up as a dispensary with steps let down for visitors. See pages 27 and 28.] [Illustration: TRUCK WITH EXTENSION DEVICES The usefulness of this truck for demonstrations and exhibitions is more than doubled by the tents which are strapped to the sides of the truck in travel and set up at each stopping place, and by the motion picture apparatus which is set up on the roof. See page 28.]