ADVICE FOR MOTHERS
NEW CLINIC OPENED SECOND IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Dec. 20. Sydney now has a second birth control clinic to which three women members of the British Medical Association arc giving their services free. A trained nurse, experienced in Ihe work, with two assistants, attends at a centrally situated office in Pitt street, to give advice and arrange appointments with the doctors. Objects are the education ot the community on eugenic lines; lawful medical advice and birth control treatment for married women, and the distribution of health books and pamphlets. “Birth control is justified when one or both parents are afflicted with mental deficiency or hereditary disease,” said one of the doctors yesterday. “Lack of sufficient means to support and educate further children properly and a desire to space families so that each child gets proper attention, are other good reasons for birth control.” she added. This doctor pointed out that trade in illegal operations, most frequently performed by unqualified persons, was growing at an alarming rate.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 5
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168ADVICE FOR MOTHERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 5
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