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Case C. 627.—Married in 1919. In 1920 bore one child which lived only seven days. In the same year conceived again, had an operation for appendicitis and a miscarriage. In 1921 had a child which lived seven hours and in 1922 a child which lived three hours. The death certificates of the children show that all died after hæmorrhage from nose, mouth or anus.
The last case must surely make the medical profession blush.
The above are merely samples of the hundreds of cases that have come to me for the help of contraceptive knowledge.
A telling case, illustrative also of those for whom contraceptive knowledge is absolutely indicated was given from her own practice by Dr. Jane Hawthorne at the first Queen's Hall Meeting[1] "In twelve years the woman was the mother of nine children, and of these only two were alive" . . . "Her first-born did not walk until it was 5 years old, and during that time three more children were born to her, so that in five years she had four little children to care for. The second child is very
- ↑ "Queen's Hall Meeting on Constructive Birth Control, Convened by Dr. Marie Stopes. Verbatim Report of Speeches and Impressions." Pp.47. Putnam's, London, 1921. See pp. 11 and 12.
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