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BIRTH CONTROL NEWS
October, 1987
Vol. xvi, No. 3.
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IN SOUTH WALES
AT THE
DRILL HALL
(Dumfries Place)
CARDIFF
ON
Thursday, October 7, 1937
MARIE C. STOPES
D.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S., etc., President of the C.B.C.
WILL SPEAK ON
"The Ideals and Practice of Constructive Birth Control"
ON BEHALF OF
THE NEW MOTHERS' CLINIC FOR SOUTH WALES, TO BE OPENED AT CARDIFF
QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED
DOORS
OPEN AT 7.80
Chair taken at 8 p.m. sharp by Councillor O. EVANS
Of the S. Wales Miners' Federation.
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Pietermaritzburg.
C.B.C. NOTES.
For a very small sum per annum our affiliated Clinic, of the Pietermaritz- burg Mothers' Welfare Society, does most valuable and much-needed work, and we congratulate them on their third annual report.
Some examples of cases during the year are as follows:-
No. of years No. of Births
married
or Pregnancies
Coloured ..25
19
Wages and other particulare 11th preg. triplete, all died. Now living, 15,
£3 per month.
Indian
..18
10
£1 10a. per month.
Coloured
..20
13
21 10s. per month.
European.. 8
6
£6 per month.
European..14
11
68. 6d. per day.
European.. .25
15
6s. 6d. per day.
living, 10.
Doctor's "Days.”
Now
On Thursday, October 7, at 2.30 p.m., a practical demonstration of the technique of the use of a variety of contraceptive methods will be given by Dr. Evelyn Fisher. This will include clinical demonstrations on women of various types, and those attending will be enabled to practise on various patients the use of various contracep- tive devices. Previous applications for tickets (which will be supplied to medical practitioners only) should be made in writing to the Hon. Secretary, C.B.C., 108, Whitfield Street, W.1, as space at the Clinic is still quite unable to meet the demands made on it.
The Belfast Clinic.
The nurse-in-charge of the Belfast Clinic reports when she re-opened the Clinic after the summer vacation, there
were letters of inquiry from Bally castle, Armagh, Bangor, Coleraine, Loughgall, Carnmoney, Dublin and Londonderry, which shows that news of the Clinic's existence is spreading and it is reaching those who need it.
PROBLEM OF MENTAL DEFECTIVES IN LEEDS. Concern at the yearly increase in the incidence of mental deficiency in Leeds and the replenishing of the population from the least intelligent stock was expressed by Mr. B. Wormald, Mental Health Service executive officer.
Over four out of every thousand persons of the population are, he pointed out, already certified under the Mental Deficiency Acts, not including feeble-minded children in special schools under the Education Com- mittee, and at least two thousand mental deficients who have not been reported to the local authority.
[C The number of deficients and the sub-intelligent section of the population is increasing out of all proportion to the normal population.
"The population of Leeds is being replenished from its least intelligent
stock. The annual report of the states that the feeble-minded person Mental Health Services Committee
not provided with control or super- vision is a social harbinger of crime, immorality, and chronic pauperism.
"It also points out that the increase of national defence is a sure forerunner burden of expenditure on the public and intensifies the social problems of the city."
Please secure more new and active
members, and please note that we still want subscriptions to be sent to the Treasurer or Secretary at 108, Whit- field Street, W.1.
H. V. Roe, Hon. Sec., C.B.C.
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