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Comprises:
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/1: Menstruation in Schoolgirls: A survey based on replies to a questionnaire, 1930.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/2: Advice Regarding Menstruation to Parents, Schoolmistresses and others in charge of girls, c.1920s-1930s.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/3: Advice to Young Women concerning the Monthly Period, c.1920s-1930s.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/4: Table of exercises, c.1920s-1930s.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/5: The London Association of the Medical Women's Federation, "The Health of Adolescent Girls", c.1920s-1930s.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/6: The London Association of the Medical Women's Federation, "The Health of Adolescent Girls", (slightly different/later-version), c.1920s-1930s.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/7: Dr Mona McNaughten, "Health and the Periods: A Leaflet for Girls", c.1920s-1930s.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/8: "Supply and disposal of sanitary towels in schools", reprinted from The Lancet, 28 May 1949.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/9: "Scope and opportunities of the School Health Service in Relation to Schoolgirls: Report by a Committee of the Medical Women's Federation", reprinted from The Lancet, 14 January 1950.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/5/10: "Advice about the Monthly Periods, a Family Doctor Pamphlet", specially prepared by the Medical Women's Federation, 1950s-1960s.</li>

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