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CONTRACEPTION

by American ladies that afternoon to open and support a clinic, a way devised to keep it technically within the law, and the management left in very influential hands, the actual clinic has not yet materialized (1922, Nov.).

People interested in control of conception in England have talked for years of the need for clinics, but no very definite attempt to found one was made till 1917. Then the offer by Mr. H. V. Roe, the aviation pioneer, of support for a birth control clinic, to be attached to St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester (already mentioned on pp. 314 and 324), was accompanied by a detailed statement of suggestions for the proposed foundation, among which the following is of sufficient interest to be put on record.

Dated 1917, the schedule was as follows:—

The proposed—

"Birth Control Clinic.

"Organization.

"Staff.—Male Doctor for male patients and Female Doctor for lady patients. Both should visit Holland gaining a few weeks' experience with Dr. J. Rutgers at the Hague and with Dr. Aletta Jacobs at Amsterdam.

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