ITALY: Accouchements

If Premier Benito Mussolini has his way, every Italian midwife and doctor must instantly report to health authorities the birth of a deformed infant. The report must state the nature of the deformity, whether caused by accident of conception or delivery. What Premier Mussolini expects to do with and about such birth mishaps, last week's dispatches did not indicate.

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