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National Birth Control Association (NBCA)/FPA leaflets

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Comprises the following:
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/1: National Birth Control Council. General leaflet, 1930</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/2: 'Birth Control and Local Authorities. The Present Position', 1930</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/3: 'Judge's approval of birth control'. Reprint from The Times, 1931</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/4: 'The Present need for birth control', Jan 1934</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/5: 'Parenthood. By Choice or chance?', Dec 1934</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/6: 'Birth Control and the Public Health Service', Oct 1936. See also 15, 16.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/7: 'Family Planning', Jun 1937</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/8/8: 'Birth Control and Maternal Health'. Address to Glasgow conference at National Birth Control Association (NBCA), by Prof Dugald Baird, Sep 1937</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/9: Statement on Contraceptive Methods [Family Planning Association printed over National Birth Control Association in title], 1938-1939</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/10: 'The services offered to practitioners by the Medical Sub-Committee of the National Birth Control Association (NBCA)' (2 copies), Feb 1938</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/11: 'Health Authorities are allowed', 1930s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/12: 'National Birth Control Association (NBCA). Recent Publications', 1930s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/13: 'What's in a Name?' Copy and proof for leaflet re name change to FPA, 1939</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/14: List of contraceptives that have passed clinical and/or laboratory tests, 1942</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/15: 'Birth Control and the Public Health Service' [with pencil corrections for revised editions], Aug 1943</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/16: 'Birth Control and the Public Health Service', 1948. See also 6.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/17: List of officers, 1940s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/18: 'How Many Children?' Leaflet encouraging population increase, 1940s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/19: 'How Our Clinics Work', Oct 1949. See also 51, 52.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/20: 'How to keep a temperature chart', Jul 1951. See also A16/11.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/21: 'What is Family Planning?', Apr 1932</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/22: Sub-fertility Conference. Programme, Feb-Mar 1932</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/23: General leaflet, with history, objects and balance sheet for 1951, 1952</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/24: General leaflet [revised edition], 1953</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/25: Note re misprint in leaflet 24, c.1953</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/26-30: Seminological service. Various leaflets, including drafts, 1951-1953</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/31: 'Do You Want a Baby?', Oct 1952</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/32a-b: Membership form and covenanted subscription form, May 1953</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/33: 'Three services for Doctors', 1950s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/34: 'The Place of the Family in Society' by Prof J. M. Mackintosh, 1954</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/35: Lady Denman Memorial Fund. Subscription leaflet, listing donations, 1954</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/36: Letter and sample leaflet for branches, from Margaret Pyke, Mar 1954</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/37: 'A warm welcome in a happy home', 1955</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/38: 'Family Planning Association' (Reprint from BMJ), Dec 1955</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/39: Marital and Pre-Marital Clinic [2 versions], 1956</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/40: The Family Planning Association. Recruitment leaflet, c.1957</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/41: 'Three Messages' (Countess Mountbatten, Dame Hilda Lloyd and Bishop of Birmingham), 1957</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/42: 'Methods of Family Planning', 1960s. Original (February 1962) and two copies of revised version (n.d., 1960s). See also 80-82.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/43: 'Who Asks our Help and Why?', 1960s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/44-50: 'What is Family Planning?'. Various editions, 1951-1954 and 1957</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/51-52: 'How Our Clinics Work', Aug 1951 Feb 1960. See also 19.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/53: Marriage Welfare Centres by Lord Brain (2 copies), 1950s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/54: Statement on family planning by Archbishop of Canterbury. Proof copies, Apr 1960</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/55-58: 'At Your Service'. Leaflet for the engaged or newly wed, with editions for different religious denominations, 1964-1967</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/59: 'Do You Do Your Washing on Monday?', 1961</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/60: Constitution of FPA, 1962. See also A1/3.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/61: Lay Workers leaflet, 1964</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/62: 'A guide to modern contraception', 1964</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/63-65: 'Family Planning Services. A Guide for Social Workers', 1964. See also A16/9.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/66: 'When should a child be born?', Jun 1960</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/67: 'When should a child be born?', 1965</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/68: 'A Domiciliary Family Planning Service', 1964</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/69: 'A Domiciliary Family Planning Service', 1966</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/70: 'Domiciliary Family Planning Services', Nov 1968</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/71: 'Domiciliary Family Planning Services', 1971</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/72: 'Cervical Smears. A Special Cancer Test for Women', 1965</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/73: 'Cervical Smears. A Special Cancer Test for Women', 1967</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/74: Adapted from article by Sir Theodore Fox, Director, FPA [in Midwife and Health Visitor, May 1965], 1965</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/75: Abridged address by Sir Theodore Fox [in Nursing Mirror, Feb 1968], 1969. See also A16/9.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/76: 'The FPA Today and Tommorow', 1967</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/77: Some Questions and Answers, 1967</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/78: Some Questions and Answers, 1969</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/79: IUDs, c.1960s. See also A16/9.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/80: 'Methods of Family Planning', 1965</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/81a-b: 'Methods of Family Planning', Mar 1967. 2 versions</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/82: 'Methods of Family Planning', 1969. 2 versions. See also 42 A16/9.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/83: 'The Pill', 1966</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/84: 'The Pill', 1968</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/85: 'The Pill', Feb 1969. See also A16/9.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/86: 'The Pill and the Patient, by a doctor', Oct 1967</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/87: 'To Every Mother of a New Baby', 1966</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/88: 'To Every Mother of a New Baby', 1969</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/89: Family Planning Association. General leaflet 2 versions, c.1965</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/90: 'The FPA. What Does It Do?', c.1966</li>
<li>SA/FPA/A16/8/91: 'NHS (Family Planning) Act 1967. A Postscript to the FPA literature', Sep 1967</li>

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