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Harlem Center Dedicated In Stone's Honor Deceased Did Much For Negro Health In Harlem

NEW YORK-(NNNPA)-The Harlem planned parenthood center under auspices of New York committee of Mothers Health Centers was dedicated last Tuesday at 271 West 12th Street "to honor the work done in Harlem" by the late Dr. Hannah M. Stone.

Her husband, Dr. Abraham Stone said it always had been "the delight of Dr. Hannah to make life for Harlem mothers happier and more hopeful."

The Harlem center originally was housed in 1936 with the Harlem Urban League at 202 W. 136th St. Last year it was decided to expand its services and to move "closer to the center of the Harlem population."

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Edward S. Lewis, executive director of the Urban League of Greater New York, declared that "Harlem with its congested housing, its high mortality rate and its excessive still-birth rate needs every available resource."

According to D. Kenneth Rose national secretary of the Planned Parenthood Federation, "this country must concern itself more and more with its mothers and its children regardless of their race, creed or color."

The officials of the center hope that it will help to stamp out cancer, tuberculosis and venereal diseases by reaching "young married people soon enough to give them the right guidance." They said their desire was "that young people be encouraged to have their families while they are young."