Birth Control In China
Sir, —To anyone with a knowledge, however slight, of China, the decision of the present regime to pursue a vigqrous campaign for birth-control is profoundly significant. The teeming, disease-ridden poverty of the great cities, the indescribable conditions on board thousands of junks and sampans on rivers, canals, and creeks, the ever-present threat of starvation that, apart from periodical catastrophes such as the Yellow river floods, kept millions of peasants in a perpetual bondage of fear—to a’l .this, with a population mounting by 15,000,000 a year, there could be only one practicable answer. It is a measure of the Chinese Government’s concern, and stark realism, that they should defy so much that is deep-rooted and traditional in furtherance of a practice that, sooner or later, one feels, other nations, if they are to survive, will be forced to accept.—Ycurs., etc.. NINGPO MORE FAR. April 24, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 3
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