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North Kensington Women's Welfare Centre. Papers

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Comprises the following:
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/1-11: Correspondence with C P Blacker and others re Royal Commission on Population and developments at North Kensington, 1950-1951</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/12: 'Notes on the extension of work at the North Kensington.....' by Margery Spring Rice, Jul 1950</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/13: 'Memorandum on Expansion' by Margery Spring Rice, Jun 1950</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/14: Extracts from Report of Royal Commission on Population, Jun 1944</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/15: Branch Conference. Report, Jun 1956</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/16: 'Social and Health Services'. Printed booklet, Royal Borough of Kensington, 1953</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/17: 'The National Birth Control Association (NBCA). Arguments for expansion', Memorandum by Margery Spring Rice, 1939</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/18: 'Family Relations Group'. Draft memorandum by C P Blacker, Jan 1946</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/19: 'North Kensington Women's Welfare Centre, suggested lines of development', Jul 1938</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/20: 'Memorandum on problem of recruiting poor as patients'. Signed by Margery Spring Rice, 1930s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/21: 'The need for gynaecological clinics'. Signed by Margery Spring Rice, 1930s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/22: Report of Sub-Committee on Reconstruction and Organisation to Executive Committee, 1930s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/23: 'Supplement for Medical Readers' Draft by Marjorie Farrer, and correspondence, annotations, 1928</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/24: Norman Himes. Papers and correspondence, 1927-1930</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/24a: 'British Birth Control Clinics' Eugenics Review Vol XX no 3, 1928</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/24b: 'Eugenic Thought in the American Birth Control Movement' Eugenics Vol. II No. 5, Journal of American Eugenics Society, May 1929</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/24d: 'A Critical Review of 'Medical Aspects of Contraception', a report of the National Council of Public Morals New England Journal of Medicine, Jan 1929</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/24e: 'An Analysis of the First Thousand cases at the North Kensington Women's Welfare Clinic' (typescript), 1927. See also SR15/25.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/24f: Correspondence between Norman Himes and Margery Spring Rice, 1940s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/25: Memorandum by Investigator on methods used in survey of North Kensington Clinic, 1927. See SR15/24.</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/25c: 'Some Untouched Birth Control Research Problems.' Eugenics Vol. III no. 2, Feb 1930</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/26: Memorandum re clinic publicity by Margery Spring Rice, 1940s</li>
<li>SA/FPA/SR15/27: Leaflets (one sheet only) on marriage problems, sub-fertility, birth control, eugenic guidance and rhythm method, 1958</li>

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