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THE "NOVOX" APPARATUS FOR ALL
CONDITIONS OF BREATHLESSNESS.
You have provided at the Fire Station an apparatus
containing Oxygen and Carbon Di-oxide for the resuscitation
of those, who, from whatever cause, are not breathing
or who have difficulty in obtaining breath. It has proved to
be extraordinarily useful in numerous cases of emergency.
BIRTH CONTROL.
The subject of Contraception has been freely and
exhaustively discussed for some years by all classes and
creeds, and, whatever the objections may be—and they are
many—it must now be conceded that the practice has a
definite position for certain well marked and recognised
instances of abnormal conditions, for example:—for those
suffering from hereditary disease, mental troubles, syphilis,
chronic epilepsy, alcoholism, active tuberculosis, advanced
heart or kidney trouble; for those who, having already four
or five children, are becoming exhausted and unfit—for those
wh ohave rickety contracted pelves, and perhaps have already
had Caesarian section—and for other causes to be determined
by the medical attendant.
It is certainly not desirable that the strong and healthy
should practise birth control methods; by so doing they
accept, from a eugenic point of view, a grave responsibility.
Birth Control is, in any case, preferable to the sudden
and unnatural termination of pregnancy (abortion), which is
said to be greatly on the increase.
There is no doubt that poorer women, who are eligible,
should be able to obtain advice as to the best modern
methods of contraception—not at a Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinic, but at what is known as a Gynaecological
Clinic, held say once a month, a Clinic which deals only
with illnesses peculiar to women.
CREMATION.
We constantly hear of land being surveyed and acquired
still for burial grounds in Middlesex, and around London,
but not a suggestion for a Columbarium or Garden of Sleep.
In many continental towns nearly all Protestants, on
dying, are cremated now—they realise the danger and the
folly of using valuable land for purposes of burial.
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