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higher among those intellectuals who used contraceptive measures than it was among those who did not!

An excellent and readable essay on the national aspects of this subject has recently appeared from the pen of Col. G. T. K. Maurice;^[1] and to this reference should be made for a balanced discussion of the greater national problems which are outside the scope of my present work.

As I pointed out in 1921 in Chapter XIX of "Radiant Motherhood," the loss to the community measured in potential work undone owing to ill-health of the mother or child, coupled with the wasted work done by doctors and nurses in attending to illnesses which ought never to have taken place, is a very great national loss quite apart from the expense and wasted work involved in the making of a. large number of infants' coffins.

Such wasteful births, taking place as they do mostly in the families of the poor, tend not only to increase their misery and general C3 condition, but also to add to their bickerings and dissatisfaction with present conditions. Such births also augment the charges on the rates and taxes