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<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/1: Association of Registered Medical Women, "To the President and Members of the Royal Commission on the Law of Divorce and its Administration", c.1910.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/2: Association of Registered Medical Women, “Tuberculosis Conference: The Present Position of Tuberculin and Sanatorium Treatment”, reprinted from The Medical World, 18 June 1914.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/3: Official Report of Conference... Manchester... September 29th 1917... "A Ministry of Health", 1917.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/4: "Report to the Air Ministry from the Medical Women's Federation", reprinted from Medical Women's Federation Newsletter, July 1926.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/5: Scheme for a National Maternity Service, 1929.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/6: "Pain in Childbirth", reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 26 February 1949.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/7: Clare Fry, “On Spending a Penny”, reprint from The Spectator, 7 December 1951.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/8: Clare Fry, "The Inconvenience of Public Conveniences", BBC Woman's Hour, 13 May 1952.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/9: Report on the Investigation "The Old Woman", c.1959.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/10: Alice I. Muir-Leach, "Female Circumcision: some after effects and other aspects", reprinted from the Journal of the Medical Women's Federation, July 1961.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/11: "Abortion Law Reform", reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 17 December 1966.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/B.4/9/12: "Marriage and Divorce Law Reform: The Woman Doctor's Point of View", 1950s-1960s.</li>

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