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THE Family Planning Association directs attention to the fact that the Ministry of Health has during the last nine years issued four memoranda to local authorities in England and Wales on the provision of contraceptive advice for married women, but states that of 409 authorities so notified less than half have taken any effective action. The Committee on Abortion in its report (see NATURE, June 1, p. 19) stated that the available facilities for contraceptive advice are inadequate and should be extended. The Family Planning Association, which incorporates several bodies that formerly dealt with questions of birth control, now has sixty-six voluntary clinics where advice on birth control and sterility is given to married women. Information on the subject may be obtained from the Secretary of the Association, 69 Eccleston Square, London, S.W.1, and financial support would be welcomed.
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Contraceptive Advice by Local Authorities. Nature 144, 149 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144149c0
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