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 for directresses of children's homes, 3) experimental Kindergarten, and 4) experimental children's homes.

The Information Department has a museum and a library on all questions of pedagogy, and a lecture bureau.

The Publishing Department publishes a special magazine, publishes and distributes scientific and popular treatises on pre-scholastic education, and has its own shop where furniture, toys and school appliances are manufactured.

The hygienic interests of the population are treated in Document No. 13, while the application of hygiene to the school is taken up in Documents Nos. 14 and 15.

At the present moment, when the People's Commissariat of Education is approaching the question of education, and is attempting to direct it in a manner necessary for a thoroughgoing development of the individual, a great demand for physician-pedagogues is being felt. This question is naturally closely interrelated with the organization of medical-sanitary aid in the Republic. At the congress of medical-sanitary boards attached to the various local Soviets of workmen's deputies, held during the summer of 1918, in Moscow, the following resolution was adopted:

"1) The most essential organization task of medical aid in localities under the Soviet Government has been the removal of old inter-departmental limitations and their unification. 2) Therapeutics must be built on a basis of a consistent realization of the following principles: a) general accessibility, b) free treatment. 3) It is necessary to immediately take steps toward raising the quality of medical aid (special hours for treatment, ambulatories, special dispensaries). 4) Only the Soviet Government, firmly pursuing the policy of abolishing social inequality,