BIRTH CONTROL
DISCUSSISON BY BISHOPS. UNDESIRABLES INCREASING. LONDON, June 12. The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. AV. Barnes,, at the Convocation of Canterbury, advocated something analogous to sterilisation to eliminate mental defectives, who, lie said, comprise at least one-tenth of the population. The Archbishop of Canterbury, D Cosmo Lang, deprecated a general dis, cussion of the subject.
Dr. Barnes said Britain possessed more people than could he employed for a generation. Birth control was now general, except in the unskilled labour and the social problem classes. A reckless, feckless class was increasing, instead of the community’s better stock, the. iaciea:e of which’was desirable. It would be beneficial, said l>r. Barnes, to teach birth control to women of the unskilled labour class. The Bishop of London, Dr. ‘Winnington Ingram, said lie regarded the ethics the campaign for the abolition of slums. The Bishop of Worcester, Dr. A. W. Perowne, compared the slum landlord able to afford repairs, but who left tenants in misery, to the owner of a house of ill-fame.
The conference resolved to support of birth control as beside the mark.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1933, Page 6
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