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CHAPTER THREE

giving a number of other charts illustrating similar facts.[1]

Death-rates of very Poor Children in the First Year, Showing the Value of SPACING Births.

Text Fig. 1.—a, with 0-1 year's interval, between births; b, with 1-2 years' interval between births; c, with 2 and over years' interval between births. Percentages reckoned on 1,045 cases, after Dr. Weinberg.

In my opinion, after a first birth a contraceptive should always be used for not less than one year, however much a second child is desired, and similarly after every successive birth (see also p. 220).

  1. ↑ M. V. Gruber and E. Rudin (1911): "Fortpflanzung Vererbung Rassenhygiene." Pp. 191. 260 illustrations. München, 1911. See Weinberg's figures, pp. 132, 133.

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