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Family Planning — for Unmarried Girls
I am indebted to Dr. Christopher for her statistics on the work of the Family Planning Clinic for unmarried
girls and below is an extract from her comments:-
"We have very few West Indian patients and those that are seem to come from the nearby Home for unmarried
mothers.
A point of note is the 'problems'. They are not necessarily having treatment for them or even admit that they
have them; this is an assessment by the clinic doctor. It would seem that Fortis Green is largely a clinic for
'middle-class' girls and there are quite a number of unplanned pregnancies among them, though they tend to
seek termination of the pregnancy, whereas the girls from poorer homes tend to have the babies and may get
them adopted or may keep them".
Fortis Green Clinic for Young People
Total No. of cases December 1968 — October 1970 500
Regular Attenders 314
Transfers 66
Non-attenders 120 (58 of these attended once only)
Ages of Girls Nationalities
15 years 5 England 449
16 23 Europe 16
17 48 West Indian 16
18 42 Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa 9
19 56 Eire 5
20 86 India 2
21-25 204 Chinese (Hong Kong) 1
26+ 36 U.S.A. 1
Greek Cypriot 1
Referring Agent Occupation
Friend 161 Clerical (secretaries, typists) 190
Reading about it 127 Students 94
G.P. 88 Teacher 40
F.P.A. Transfer 62 Schoolgirl 21
Beacon Lodge 30 Nurse 12
Social Worker 17 Unemployed 20
Hospital 15 Factory
Hairdresser
Shop Assistant
Musician
Other 123
Artist
Librarian
Dental Nurse
Lab. Assistant
Total No. Unplanned Pregnancies 116
Termination 37
Abortions Spontaneous 3
Criminal 3 43
Illegitimate Adopted 38
Children Kept Baby 31 73 (4 children died)
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