Within the last hundred years more than one officer has believed that infanticide had been suppressed by his efforts, and yet the practice is by no means extinct.

In the Agra Province the severely inquisitorial measures adopted in 1870, and rigorously enforced, have no doubt done much to break the custom, but, in the neighbouring province of Oudh, the practice continued to be common for many years later.

A clear case in the Rai Bareli District came before me in 1889, though no one was punished, for lack of judicial proof against any individual.

The author discusses infanticide as practised in Oudh in many passages of his _Journey through the Kingdom of Oudh_ (Bentley, 1858), It is possible that female infanticide may be still prevalent in many Native States.

Mr.Willoughby in the years preceding A.D.1849 made great progress in stamping it out among the Jharejas of the Kathiawar States in the Bombay Presidency.