Joint Council on Midwifery: Abortion Survey
- Date:
- 1936-1943
- Reference:
- SA/NBT/S
- Part of:
- National Birthday Trust Fund
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
After the passing of the Midwives Act [Jul 1936] the Joint Council on Midwifery established, with the approval of the Ministry of Health, a committee to enquire into the extent of non-therapeutic abortion. The chairman was Dr Watts Eden; the committee met from Oct 1936 and in Apr 1937 produced an interim report.
The JCM Research committee took over the administration of the statistical work on the survey. Individual questionnaires were completed and 3,300 returned by August 1938. These were analysed and a report on the results submitted to the government's Inter-Departmental Committee on Abortion in Oct 1938.
An Abortion Follow-up Survey was conducted on 300 cases and a report compiled by Dr Meave Kenny.
The records in this section include committee papers, notes on compilation of reports, tabulations from the questionnaires and the full set of original questionnaire forms.
Final reports: see R.13
Minutes: - Main committee - R.2
- Legal sub-committee - R.3
- General purposes sub-committee - R.4