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CONTRACEPTION

at the Queen's Hall meeting when he said:[1] "There are very many people in our midst who on account of some constitutional taint (it may be tuberculosis, epilepsy or venereal disease) are unlikely to give birth to normal or healthy children. There are thousands of people turned out every year from the tuberculosis sanatoriums, venereal disease clinics, &c., temporarily patched up but with the taint still in the blood, although the outer manifestations have been removed," who ought no longer to go on "adding to their families with the terrible risk of transmitting that taint to the next generation."

All will agree that contraception, either permanently employed, or at any rate used over a period or two or more years, seems indicated in all multiparæ in whose histories the following are found:—

  1. Active syphilis.
  2. Congenital blindness.
  3. Virulent tuberculosis.
  4. Acute heart diseases of various types (see paragraph, p. 35, Note).
  5. Kidney diseases of various types.
  6. Epilepsy.
  7. Leprosy.
  1. ↑ "Queen's Hall Meeting on Constructive Birth Control: Verbatim Report of Speeches and Impressions." Pp. 47. London: 1921. See p. 16.

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