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Control Campaign and the women's groups have again been active in educating
women by showing films on the subject and enlisting the services of doctors,
including those from the Health Department to answer questions, in an attempt
to allay fears and doubts in the minds of the audience.

FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE
The expansion of the family planning service in the Borough in accordance
with the implementation of the National Health Service (Family Planning) Act
1967 continued; the most important feature being the co-ordination of the
sessions run by the Family Planning Association and those directly by the
Council. The Family Planning Association is reimbursed 100% of net approved
expenditure relating to Hackney residents.
Publicity by means of new and attractive blue leaflets and posters
listing all the sessions held in the borough alike under the headings of
the centres where they are held and giving details of the method of making
appointments were distributed. There has been close liaison between this
department and the Family Planning Association in discussion of the needs of
the people of Hackney for the service.
There were in all 14 sessions held weekly up to 1st April, and 15 thereafter.
Of these 7 were under the auspices of the Family Planning Association
and two of them were attended by two doctors, making double sessions. One
Family Planning Association session is held at Hackney Hospital for the
fitting of the intra-uterine device.
Two other sessions run by the Council are held at John Scott Health
Centre and Shoreditch Health Centre for the same purpose. The number of
Council sessions increased from 211 to 334 and the number of women attending
rose by 680 to 1,641, the total attendances being increased by 2,625 to 4,925.
During the same period nearly 3,000 women made approximately 7,000 attendances
at the Family Planning Association Clinics in the Borough.
Young Peoples' Session
This was begun by the Family Planning Association acting as the Council's
agent in April 1968, to try to educate and assist young people in their
special needs. For the first three months the clinic was held fortnightly,
after this, each week. Attendances at this session totalled 322 during the
nine months it was open. The clinic appears to fulfil two roles. Firstly,
young unmarried people are given straightforward education and advice on
birth control. Secondly, two main types of problems are dealt with, the