PREGNANCY PROBLEM
(N.Z. Press Association > WELLINGTON. Aug. 17. Prevention of pregnancy in young unmarried girls is an urgent matter and involves changing public attitudes to extra-marital sexual relations and to the use of contraceptive methods, says the Health Department in its annual report. One-third of maternal deaths occur in unmarried women and mere than a third of these have been Maori or Pacific Island women, according to the report tabled in Parliament today.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32998, 18 August 1972, Page 21
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