BIRTH CONTROL
MEASURE of eugenics PRINCE’S DOCTOR AN AIDVOCATE LONDON, July J 7. Birth control as “the most practical measure of eugenics available,” was advocated by Sir Thomas Herder, physician in ordinary to the Prince of Wales, in an address before 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. “£ regard indiscriminate child-bear-ing as a disease of the body politic. I here should be a proper course of instruction in birth control in the medical curriculum. ”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 8
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98BIRTH CONTROL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 8
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