BIRTH CONTROLLER.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 9

BIRTH CONTROLLER.

BISHOP'S STRIKING ADDRESS.

(ja CI tfM —PBXBS ABBOCIATIOH—COPtBIQHT.) \finmuAUt xwd jr.z. c*blb association.) ' .' . LONDON, May 31. j The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Bishop jf Birmingham, delivered a most striking 'address at a service held in connexion with the Institute of Publio ?ealth Congress at Brighton. ,Human welfare, he said,-was now menaoed by human fecundity, and civiwas in danger of being choked l>y human waste products. . llje question arose, he continued, rfiother the social conscience was not conniving at racial degeneration. The - better classes were increasing slowly, fyt s}l. The victory of medicine and over Nature's destructive " fprtes wduld bo! disastrous to publiq -wlfow unless the desire for rtiany children, which was natural and till rocenUy l&udable, wss held in check. The limit had been reached in the popular tioi pf the British Isles. ** More might bo done .to prevent the piesjat reckless child-bearing. It was gmftly wrong that children swarmediU g'fercrowded slums. Any further in(Mfa' in the pttpiilation miist be toJijffed by emigration, but the migrants . BlUst be worthy of 'the race. , t '& ]t would be said that parents with ikrgo families were obeying the law i'jfo increase and multiply and replenish ■ thp earth." But it was only eyadiilg ■ serious thought to quote a text which was not applicable to modern oondi- ; lions.