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Comprises:
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/1: "Menstruation: A Natural Function, Industrial Health Unit", Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd., 1947.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/2: "Pain and Your Period", Nicholas Products Ltd, makers of Feminax.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/3: Alice E Sanderson Clow, "Advice on the Monthly Period", Central Council for Health Education, 1955.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/4: Alice E Sanderson Clow, "Menstruation During School Life", reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 2 Oct 1920.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/5: Alice E Sanderson Clow, "Treatment of Dysmenorrhoea by Exercise", reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 2 Jan 1932.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/6: "Six Hints to Mothers of Teenage Girls: (The Monthly Periods)", Central Council for Health Education, 1956.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/7: "Woman Newsheet: Health Department: Menstruation", Woman, Odham's Press Ltd.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.4/8: "You're becoming a WOMAN", Silcot Santowels.</li>

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