Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
![[Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0046560/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
National Council of Public Morals (in connection with the investigation of National Birth-Rate Commission). 'The Ethics of Birth Control'. Report of Special Committee.
Date: 1925Reference: SA/FPA/SR24B/16/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Medical aspects of contraception / being the report of the Medical Committee appointed by the National Council of Public Morals in connection with the investigations of the National Birth-Rate Commission.
National Council of Public Morals. Medical Committee.Date: 1927- Archives and manuscripts
'A Critical Review of 'Medical Aspects of Contraception', a report of the National Council of Public Morals New England Journal of Medicine
Date: Jan 1929Reference: SA/FPA/SR15/24dPart of: Family Planning Association- Books
The ethics of birth control : being the report of the special committee appointed by the National council of public morals in connection with the investigations of the National birth-rate commission, president: the Lord Bishop of Winchester, general secretary: Sir James Marchant.
National Council of Public Morals. Birth Control Committee.Date: 1925- Archives and manuscripts
Whitley Councils for the Health Services. Medical Council: Committee ‘C': correspondence and "The Industrial Court. (2321) Public Health Service. Matters arising out of Industrial Court Award No 2285"
Date: 1951Reference: PP/AWD/M/2/4Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)