In Paris Madame Dluska has shown that of 209 women who came for their confinement to the Clinique Baudelocque, only 74 suckled their children; of the 135 who did not suckle, 35 were prevented by pathological causes or absence of milk, 100 by the necessities of their work.

Even those who suckled could seldom continue more than seven months on account of the physiological strain of work (Dluska, _Contribution a l'Etude de l'Allaitement Maternel_, These de Paris, 1894).

Many statistics have been gathered in the German countries.

Thus Wiedow (_Centralblatt fuer Gynaekologie_, No.

29, 1895) found that of 525 women at the Freiburg Maternity only half could suckle thoroughly during the first two weeks; imperfect nipples were noted in 49 cases, and it was found that the development of the nipple bore a direct relation to the value of the breast as a secretory organ.