BIRTH CONTROL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21985, 21 June 1933, Page 7

BIRTH CONTROL

DISCUSSION BY BISHOPS UNDESIRABLES INCREASING. LONDON, June 2, The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr E. W. Barnes, at the Convocation of Canterbury, advocated something analogous to sterilisation to eliminate mental defectives, who, he said, comprise at least onetenth of the population. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Lang, deprecated a general discussion of the subject. Dr Barnes said Britain possessed more people than could be employed fof a generation. Birth control was now general, except in the unskilled labour and the social problem classes. A reckless, , feckless class was increasing, instead of the community’s better stock, the increase of which was desirable. It woul(| be beneficial, said Dr Barnes, to teach birth control to women of the unskilled labour class. The Bishop of London, Dr Winnington Ingram, said he regarded the ethics of birth control as beside the mark. The Bishop of Worcester, Dr A. W. Perowne, compared the slum landlord able to afford repairs, who left tenants in misery, with the owner of a house of ill-fame. The conference resolved to support the campaign for the abolition of slums.