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SHOULD FAMILIES BE RESTRICTED

BIRTH CONTROL AND OTHER

PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE.

The Queen motored down to Deptford.

Dr. Mario Stopes has published in the recently, attended by Lady Bertha Day-London Evening Standard the following kins and Mr. Harry Verney, her private outline of her evidence before the Na secretary, to pay a visit to Miss Mctional Birth Commission:-

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Millan's Baby Colony, where she saw Hitherto most of the discussion hing La practical demonstration of organised ing on birth control has been brought effort to promote the health, happiness, forward on the lines of economio "neces-" and usefulness of the rising generation sity or expediency, or it has been in- The subject of infant welfare is one thatvolved in questions of migration or lies very near to the heart of Her Majesty statistica-it has been placed, in fact, on and abe was obviously delighted to see an ordinary, material plans, what was being done. in a comparatively I should look at it from what I bold to be the highest staridpoint, and I. con small way, in one of London's poorest sider that the question of birth control and most crowded districts. There was is essentially and fundamentally a great

moral and really religious no mayoral reception or ceremony of any cause the whole of the hip af

the two human beings kind, and only those immediately con cerned knew anything about the Royal visit.

relation of

1

But the children of the district It is one fro

gave the Queen & great welcome. There were certainly many hundreds of them. and probably they ran into thousand There were women and girla, too, and few men, but in the main the crowd was juvenile, and the greeting to the distin- guished visitor was of the unrestrainedly

I think

bew

in that intimate be and wife should

relation. Aymbolic has not the sanction of

as I can religion, but it is, so far see, the nearest approach to a Diving which raises. union of souls that we get in this world at all. Therefore anything and purifies and makes happier and more perfect the union of a married pair is

of religion. the concern of reli

SEGLIGENT attitude of the RELIGIONS that the

deplorably negligent Churchus bien. The religious attitude in this connection. Church and of the Romar is essentially similar, and it is not fun- damentally suited to the needs of the present-day

community: As a result of my two little books,

and Wise Parenthood Married Life

hundreds and hundreds of let the writers of which show me that have s really religious spiritual

boisterous character in which children de of the Anges, differs a

light. Little boys and girls, most of ther bareheaded and some very dirt and unkempt thronged the approach to the colony, and a small force of police had great difficulty in making a clear way for the Queen's motor.

little, but it

The colony is a very unpretentious is year, I have personally

ters,

establishment-just a callection of more to make their marriages perfect,

dern hatments, and a playground separ

THE CRUX OF MARRIAGE. And the physical crux and the physical difficulty of

of marriage is the too great frequency of births. If the married pair have the kind of union, that their love indicates they want, there must be a way out shown to the people, or else not only the physical side of their marriage is thwarted and injured, but the spiritual. and most beautiful side of their marriage is thwarted and injured.

sted by a sort of fence hoarding from beautiful things, and they get help nei- Church-street. Deptford bat its activither from the medical profession 202 from the Church in the science of things ties have so increased that houses in the

they need. neighbourhood have been requisitioned, and there is a prospect that the entire. instipation will be taken over by the Loa Miss McMillan. don County Council.

social worker who was formerly well known in Bradford, has been for many years in the Deptford area. and has run ber Baby Colony with marked success dur- ing the past nine years. The Queen pass ed first to the babies' room. where children of 6 weeks and over are cared for, and And inspected the scrupulously-clean bealthy-looking little inmates Her Majesty talked with the nurses, asked questions about themselves and their charges and evinced" deep interest in the welfare of the little ones. Next she went into the infant root, and SAW. babies of a slightly older growth, some of whom were able to prattle replies to her questions.

ROCKING THE ROCKING-HONSE.

Going into the playground, or open air school (for it is a kind of kinder- garten): her Majesty inspected needle work, saw children at play, and noticed others sitting around miniature tables engaged in various tasks and amusements. They were divided into three classes, children up to years. others from 3 to 4. and still athers from 5 to 6. The Queen talked freely with these older children. shook hands with them, and joked with them. Several little ones near Rt hand were mounted on a giant rocking horse, and the Royal visitor smilingly agreed to rock the company for the sur. poses of a photographic record of her visit. The Queen was invited to inspect the clinic, "hich is located in a neigh bouring house, and, in spite of the dense crowd of children in the street, she elect ed to go on foot, and appeared to enjoy the difficulties of getting along, under escort of her cheering bodyguard. Her Majesty went also to the cleansing de

The reason for this difficulty with the whole of humanity is that it is not so very long ago that our bodies evolved from an animal ancestry, and the needs atock From of that primitive animal which we asprung was an enormous num ber of frequently repeated offspring to make up for the appalling wastage which existed.

itrio These primitive functions and tures are still in our

"As the

THE CHILD'S T "The attitude which I think is pro- foundly right to take is that every life which is brought into the world should be considered from the point of view of the happiness of the pair who are bring ing it forth; and the health and hap Pinese and possible use of the child which is going to be added to the community, and of the needs of the community as a whole.

rational human beings, are and our whole civilised life is not a but a conquering violation of nature, but of our primitive instincts, so in matter, which is the most fundamental that the community baa to consider, we highest should also use our reason in the interests of the community, which are Aealth, happind ol strength of mind and character best served by

member. for every

"Thera is an overwhelming evidence that A woman, under modern Western European civilised conditions unicas she is a very exceptional woman cannot hear children consecutively and frequently without both her health and

suffering.

PILLLES

and

of

partment, and saw youngsters in their the child's bee's religious belief, you

baths under process of tabbing" and scrubbing.

ir

Whatever cannot think that it

Divine wish to bring forth ill-health and misery and pain and cost to the community nad re. duction of vitality which the unreassured bringing forth of children leads to.

Another much-interrupted journey on foot brought the Queen to the dental clinic Her Majesty was informed that

**CLEẦN KNOWLEDGE.' the clinic does not den!, only with the

"Consequently it is essentially a ro ninety inmates of the baby colony, but was open to children from the Council ligious and moral attitude for a married schools. and ministers to over 3,000 pair to take up to control the birth of patients in the course of a year. Her their children.

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I am hoping

Majesty asked if it had been possible to vestigate there to follow out that in-

I think that to drive away the dis- ease-infected fags of ignorance and half knowledge which are poisoning humanity at present, clean, open knowledge is the

only alternative.

I do this in the spirit of a religious reformer, because, in my view, there is nothing of such great importance to the community as a whole as the right atti- tude of the married pair to each other.

note definite good results from the order- to attract ed attention to the teeth of the school vestigation in detail, and I hope that children, and was informed that there before very long we shall have an entire had been at least a 10 per cent improve-ly satisfactory method for humanity. ment during the past two years. The Queen visited also the eye clinic in the same building. Her Majesty remarked that the colony and its various branches appeared to her to be doing excellent and necessary work.. but the imagined they must be very difficult to run, seeing they were so scattered She expressed the opinion that the houses she had visited could be improved so as to serve their purpose better without any large scheme of demolition and rebuilding. On the way to and from the dental clinic the Queen passed, through a tiny play-yard, where children from the Babies' Colony

A paper by Dr. Leonard Hill, read be were engaged in games under the super fere the Royal Society of Arts, on the intendence of nurses. The Royal lady subject of "Infant Mortality and Hous noticed a man. n woman, and some child. ing," was largely a plea for fresh air. ren an adjacent fence at for the baby. He quoted many facts to

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mall body of police followed behind her instead of running bare legged and bare HALF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS Majesty and party, making valiant but footed as did the peasant children of vain endeavours to keep youthful ad Ireland and Beetland Plato, he said, D. LECLERC'S Her condened swaddling, but it still periyalable for times of the mizers at a respectful distance. Majesty invited Miss McMillan, who had sisted. There was less danger from dust and Erindr the Back, Chich, accompanied her throughout her tour of and other imparities in the air than FdBs leading Chemists, m. inspection, to drive back with her to the from the atmosphere of an ill-ventilated CHIŃCURENT TATCHATINDRA

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