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"Information concerning the obtaining of the best and most economical appliances.

"N.B.—A stock of pessaries, syringes &c., for free distribution to poorer patients and for purchase should be available."

The first Clinic actually to be founded in Britain however, was not attached to a hospital, but was opened as an independent institution, and this scheme therefore was modified to some extent. The actual British Birth Control Clinic is less a copy of the Dutch model and has more individuality of its own than might have been the case had not the physiological and constructive side of control of conception received special attention in England just about the time the Clinic was founded.

Although my husband and I were the founders of the first British birth control clinic, nevertheless I do not consider that more birth control clinics as independent institutions should be necessary. The obvious and proper places for the poorer classes to obtain contraceptive information are the Ante-natal Clinics and the Infant Welfare Centres, which they may be attending. All the necessary machinery for the distribution of contraceptive knowledge to the poor we have already in these centres and clinics. But it is lying idle for want of the national