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The three principal advantages are:—
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(2) Contains no quinine (which is upsetting to some people). (3) Extremely cheap, namely 1/- a box containing twelve, of a type which corresponds with those for which 2:6 or 3/6 is charged by all the ordinary retail tradesmen.
Some form of chemical contraceptive is very widely recommended by the medical profession and found to be necessary in the majority of cases by the nurses and doctors who advise at the Clinic.
For poor people she price of 2/6 or 3/6 a box renders them prohibi- tive, and many of the so-called "failures" of methods are to be traced to the fact that poor women simply cannot afford to use the chemical contraceptive which is generally advised in conjunction with some other method.
When the trade refused to supply the C.B.C. suppositories in boxes of one dozen at 1/-, the Committee of the C.B.C. decided to render them available for the public at a price which puts them within reach of the poor, as it is part of the charitable work of the Clinio that the best contraceptives shall be available at a suitable price.
Orders by post should contain 1/1} (to include postage), and will be sent by return if addressed to the Nurse-in-Charge, O.B.C. Olinic, 108, Whitfield Street, London, W. 1.
The
Birth Control Mews
MONTHLY.
OCTOBER, 1937.
VOL. XVI, No. 3.
C.B.C.
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BIRTH CONTROL NEWS
Neglect of World's Open
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In the Geography Section of the British Association meetings this summer, Professor C. B. Fawcett (London) delivered the Presidential Address on The Changing Distribu- tion of Population." At the beginning of the twentieth century Levasseur made a study of distribution of the world's population, calculating the proportions living north of the northern tropic, south of the southern tropic, and in the tropics, and ignoring the polar lands.
The outstanding facts were that 74 per cent. of the world's human inhabitants (now 75 per cent.) lived north of the tropic of Cancer, on 50 with per cent. of the world's land area, a mean density of sixty persons per square mile; while only 14 per cent. of the world's population in 1907 lived on the 9'3 per cent. of the world's land area south of the tropic of Capricorn, at a mean density of thirteen persons per square mile. This proportion in the southern hemisphere had, however, doubled in the last thirty years, and now amounts to 2'8 per cent. of the total.
Of particular interest was the belt of deserts extending from the Sahara to north-east Siberia. It was this great divide" of empty lands, inter- rupted only by a few oases and occupied by widely scattered and nomadic peoples, which held apart the civiliza- tions of the East and the West during all the ages of human history before da Gama's voyage to India in 1497.
The net effect of the great migra- tions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had been to add a fourth to the major populous regions and then to increase the absolute and relative numbers of the peoples within those regions. They had not tended to
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spread population more evenly over the earth or to fill up the great open spaces, but only to accentuate the crowding of mankind into the already populous lands.
Professor Fawcett dealt very fully with the marked and growing con- centration of populations in the urban areas and great cities of the world. This drift to the towns, he said, was universal in the countries affected by modern Western civilization. Between 1921 and 1931 the proportional in-
crease in the London area was more than double the rate of increase for Some other great Great Britain.
'conurbations grew even more rapidly, though none had a greater
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absolute increase. The number of these million-cities" and of their inhabitants was increasing, so that in two or three generations, if the tend- eney was not checked, a majority of mankind might be found living in from 200 to 300 such conurbations. Nature Takes a Hand.
Six thousand more babies were born in England and Wales in the second quarter of this year. Is one to assume that Nature herself has taken alarm at the statisticians' recent prophecies of a Britain of only five million inhabi- tants in a hundred years' time, and is embarking on a campaign of counter- offensive?
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any time to appear as an address for receiving communications on behalf of a society advocating the practice of birth control. Where, however, the Governor of another Colony included a reference to the subject in a speech delivered after the locally elected Legis- lature had made provision in its estimates for birth control clinics the Colonial Office did not consider that it would be justified in interfering.
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