The Daily Worker

London Clinics for Birth Control Show Issue Their Reports

NEW YORK, March 26.—Among the reports from foreign countries, presented to the Sixth International Birth Control conference which opened at the Hotel McAlpin today, the most interesting were those which gave the actual working of birth control in those countries where clinics for the purpose have been established. One of these reports was from the clinic established by Dr. Marie Stopes in London. This clinic opened its doors on March 17, 1921. It is the oldest birth control clinic in any English-speaking country.

The report covered the statistics for five thousand cases—a number which was completed late in 1924. Of these cases, 4,834 came to the clinic for information to prevent the birth of children on account of disease or extremely adverse conditions or for the spacing out of the family. The remaining 166 came for information which would enable the mothers to have children and it was reported that quite a number of these cases had attained their desire, and that in two cases twins had been born to women who had previously been sterile.