The tour included sections of the city known as “death places” because of their high infant mortality rates. As the crowd gathered the physician in charge gave a short talk on the object of Children’s Year. While he was thus engaged the district nurse circulated through the crowd and, picking out a likely mother and child, persuaded her to step forward with her child when the physician called for babies to be examined. It was found necessary to do this in order to get the remainder of the mothers to fall in line quickly. The physician examined the child and, if normal, it was quickly weighed and measured and the regular Children’s Year forms filled out, one for the committee’s record and a duplicate for the mother. The mother was advised to report at regular intervals to the city’s nearest prophylactic dispensary where she would receive instructions as to how to keep her baby well. For the sake of its effect, she was given a card signed by the mayor, stating that she was entitled to this service and urging her to avail herself of it. She then passed on to the tent containing exhibits where child hygiene and other posters were displayed and educational pamphlets distributed. The exhibits and literature were usually presided over by the uniformed motor corps driver, although on some occasions an extra nurse was carried for the purpose. In an average afternoon, from twenty-five to thirty babies would be examined. Although city nurses were constantly carrying on routine work in the districts visited, many cases of contagion and sore eyes were found by the traveling outfit which had been missed entirely by the regular nurses. After the truck had visited a given section the nurses in charge of the district dispensary were instructed to make a note of attendance. Records showed a considerable increase in visitors, a number of whom brought with them the cards received at the traveling dispensary or they said that they had been referred to the dispensary after a preliminary examination on the truck. MOTOR TRUCK CLINICS IN ITALY In Italy seven trucks were used with practically the same equipment as in Cleveland, and three more were equipped for dental work. They were operated from certain centers in the region where the American Red Cross Tuberculosis Commission worked in co-operation with Italian tuberculosis organizations. From these centers the trucks radiated on one-day trips to neighboring villages and towns carrying posters, printed matter, and a crew consisting of an Italian physician, lecturer, nurse, and driver. A GOVERNMENT CHILD WELFARE SPECIAL A big, gray automobile truck, known as the “Child Welfare Special,” has recently been put into the field by the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor to test the usefulness of the automobile in carrying the message of better babies into rural communities. [Illustration: TRAVELING DISPENSARIES