"Population and Birth Control"

Although a manuscript list suggests material relating to other matters, this file contains only investigations and correspondence on sale of contraceptives, leading to 1934 Contraception Bill, plus an undated draft of a letter concerning citation of a letter of his in "Lamberts list of contraceptives' requesting its withdrawal.

File contains letters, and enclose reports and correspondence) from various ecclesiatics, including the Bishop of Ripon, the Archibishop of Canterbury (Cosmo Lang), other medical men, including Lord Moynihan, Chief Constables, representatives of morality organisations, and enclosed reports, expressing anxiety about the sale of contraceptives in slot machines. This developed into wider concerns over the sale of contraceptives to minors and the unmarried and the putting forward of a Bill in Parliament to restrict the sale of contraceptives.

There is also correspondence with the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the Home Secretary, the London Rubber Company, the Public Morality Council, Krohne and Sesemann Surgical and Orthopaedic Instruments and Appliances, Charles Grant Robertson, ViceChancellor of the University of Birmingham, W Foulsham Publishers, Marie Stopes (who was opposed to the Bill, like the rest of the organised birth control movement: her note on the Bill is in PP/MCS/B/28, and the subject can also be found in the records of the Family Planning Association) and some members of the public.

File includes photographs of slot machines, and some rubber goods shop literature (including flyers for the Blakoe Energiser and assorted literature put out by Hancock and Co of Fleet St), and list of surgical and rubber goods shops "exposing contraceptives for sale" in central London.

[Notebooks, in particular PP/BED/F.5, include notes on birth control and related issues]