BIRTH CONTROL
REMARKABLE METHOD POPULATION INCREASE PREDICTED LONDON (By Mail). Just before sailing to New York from Southampton, an American surgeon, Dr. Eric Matsner, disclosed that British scientists were working on a remarkable birth control method by means of injection. “I am taking back some of the new preparation which is administered by a ‘shot’ in the arm,” he said. “The British investigators have the greatest faith in their discovery. This will make it possible for a woman to have children over a regulated period of time.’'
Dr. Matsner has taken to New York a number of South African frogs used in a new British test to determine pregnancy. “Our aim is not primarily limitation, but the planning of the family so that the maximum number of children can be safely born and reared,” he explained.
“United States statistics show conclusively that the minimum interval of 18 months between successive births materially decreases both infant and maternal mortality rates. Thus, instead of de-populating the world, as so many people fear, birth control will increase the population.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 242, 12 October 1937, Page 7
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