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the shawl. I have always got one in my arms and another clinging to my apron and it is such a lot of work to wash and clean for us all and it is such a lot you have got to pay for some one to do a days washing or a bit of scrubbing if I was only thin I would not grumble and as my husband and myself is not so very old I am afraid we should have more children yet I was only 39 on the 19th of February just gone by and the husband is 40 in July coming, we have been married 20 years come next Thursday I was 19 when I married so you can see by the family I have had that I have not had much time for pleasure and it is telling on me now I suffer very bad with varrecross vaines in my legs and my ankles gives out and I just drops doun."

That woman is obviously not very well educated: if she were, would she not have used her education to assist herself in her search for knowledge to save herself some of this misery?

Assuming, however, that the medical practitioner is to decide whether or not his or her patient shall be given contraceptive information, what are the cases in which it is clearly indicated?

Dr. Killick Millard, a medical officer of distinction, summed up the general position