Category: Health & Medicine
Children’s Bureau Report, by Grace L. Meigs, Death Rates from Child Birth in Foreign Countries, A Municipal Birth Control Clinic, Tuberculosis, Kidney Diseases, Eclampsia, Diabetes, Pelvic Deformities, Heart Disease, Too Frequent Pregnancies, Pernicious Vomiting.
_In the preceding pages it was stated that a high birth-rate is always accompanied by a high infant mortality. The material presented in this chapter demonstrates the fact that...
13. CHAPTER V_This chapter shows that the female death-rate is much greater during the child-hearing age than at other periods and notably greater than the male death-rate at any period. The...
11. CHAPTER III_In this chapter it is demonstrated that a high birth rate invariably means a high death rate, particularly a high infant mortality. Where a knowledge of methods to prevent conc...
15. CHAPTER VII_In this chapter it is shown that the feeble-minded parent is many times as prolific as the normal parent. A considerable percentage of girls living in prostitution are mentally...
16. CHAPTER VIII_When authorities prohibit marriage for the unfit, they have in mind the probable fruits of such marriage. Women suffering from the diseases mentioned in this chapter give birth...
9. CHAPTER I(_The following is the case for birth control, as I found it during my fourteen years’ experience as a trained nurse in New York City and vicinity. It appeared as a special arti...
10. CHAPTER II._In the countries covered by this chapter Birth Control has been recognised as a legitimate science; leagues advocating the prevention of conception have been formed; and the le...
14. CHAPTER VI_In this chapter it is shown that ignorance of scientific means of preventing conception involves women in harmful practices. The most common is coitus interruptus which results...
17. CHAPTER IXUnlike those of other countries, who, in Lord Morley’s words, have shirked the population question, the statesmen of Holland have been fully alive to it, and have made their cou...
7. CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION: EMINENT OPINIONS 245The purpose of the Appellant in presenting the various statistics and medical and social facts incorporated in the supplementary brief, entitled THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is t...
8. CHAPTER I._The material in this general introduction to the question of the prevention of conception comprises an article by Margaret H. Sanger and extracts from the works of Havelock Ell...
5. CHAPTER V. MATERNAL MORTALITY AND DISEASES AFFECTED BY PREGNANCY 155Children’s Bureau Report, by Grace L. Meigs, Death Rates from Child Birth in Foreign Countries, A Municipal Birth Control Clinic, Tuberculosis, Kidney Diseases, Eclampsia, Diabe...
3. CHAPTER III. POPULATION AND BIRTH RATE 431. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY 44. CHAPTER IV. INFANT MORTALITY 932. CHAPTER II. THE ORIGIN AND PRACTICE OF BIRTH CONTROL IN VARIOUS 236. CHAPTER VI. HARMFUL METHODS PRACTICED TO AVOID LARGE FAMILIES 185