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CONTRACEPTION
you would if you had only seen how my little children have missed their mother this last ten months you would then understand. May God bless your work and may it prosper for the sake of the poor."
About six months after the Constructive Birth Control Clinic was opened, the Malthusian League opened a Welfare Centre at Walworth where birth control information is given on demand in addition to the usual Welfare Work. The Centre is in charge of Mr. Norman Haire, M.B., who uses chiefly the Dutch cap. The objections to this for normal people have already been noted (p. 162). The Centre, however, attracts the very poor and neglected types of women and it may be that an unduly high proportion of these are injured so as to be unable to wear the cervical cap.
There are many demands for other Clinics and Centres in poor districts. Once a Birth Control Clinic is established in every district, as it should be, and once the cases where the women themselves are intelligent enough and only too eager to use methods of contraception have been dealt with and supplied with knowledge and appliances, there will remain the urgent racial problem of dealing with those who
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