Note 77 — II. ITS FREQUENCY, AND THE CAUSES THEREOF.

In the above remarks we must not be misunderstood. We believe Massachusetts no worse with regard to abortion than many other portions of the country, but that its registration is conducted with greater care. From the statistics given it may easily be surmised what the amount of this crime must be elsewhere. It is necessarily of infinitely more common occurrence than infanticide, the murder of children after birth, for proof of the frequency of which, at the present moment, in Great Britain, we refer to Dr. Burke Ryan’s Fothergillian Essay on the subject in the London Sanitary Review for last July, and to the London Lancet of corresponding date.