BIRTH CONTROL
MEASURE OF EUGENICS PRINCE'S DOCTOR AN ADVOCATE LONDON, July 17 Birth control as "tlie most, practical measure of eugenics available," was advocated by Sir Thomas Holder, physician in ordinary to tlie Prince Wales, in an address beforo the Royal Sanitary Institute, at Brighton. Fundamentalists, said Sir Thomas, believed that it was wrong to interfere with nature, but it was too late in evolution to revive those old ideas. " 1 regard indiscriminate child-bearing as a disease of the body politic. There should be a proper course of instruction in birth control in the medical curriculum."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21245, 27 July 1932, Page 11
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