exercised by the local health committee. This measure applies only in communes which have petitioned for and been granted such authority by Order in Council. This act is somewhat wider in scope than the Child Maintenance Act. Maintenance of Children born in Wedlock. (Act of April 10, 1915, No. 6, relating to parents and legitimate children, with supplementary acts). It provides that a maintenance order may be enforced against any person who deserts his (her) spouse and (or) children and does not provide for their maintenance to the best of his (her) ability. Maintenance of Illegitimate Children (Act of April 10, 1915, No. 3, with supplementary acts), relating to the maintenance of children whose parents are not legally married, gives the child the right to bear the name of its father or mother, imposes upon the father the duty of contributing an allow- ance during the period of pregnancy and towards the maintenance of the child. Child Neglect. The Acts of June 6, 1896 and May .23, 1930, and several amending acts relate to children under 18 years of age who have been guilty of bad conduct, have proved unamenable to home and school discipline, or who have been guilty of punishable offences or of acts which bear evidence of moral perversion or of neglect, or who by reason of the depravity or negligence of parents or. of other persons responsible for their’ upbringing may be found in a state of 167