Dr Halliday Sutherland’s article, The Soil and the Seed in Tuberculosis, appeared in the British Medical Journal on 23rd November 1912. In it, he suggested that Consumption (tuberculosis in the lungs) was caused primarily by the spread of germs from an infectious consumptive to an uninfected person. Eugenists disagreed. They said that Consumption was primarily…

A reflection on the development of this website and the highlights of 2018: In February, I visited sites relating to Dr Sutherland’s life between 1910 and 1921: Allsop Place NW1, London, where the St Marylebone Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption once stood and where he served as medical officer from 1910-1914. Regent’s Park, site of…

Recent articles in The Guardian and the Daily Mail described a controversial decision at University College London (UCL) to name a building after Sir Francis Galton, the founder modern eugenics. Both papers present British eugenics as a distasteful, but victimless, idea. It wasn’t and, as I will explain, tens of thousands of Britons died as a result of…

The penultimate paragraph of Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against the Neo-Malthusians contained this sentence: “Where are my children?” was the question shouted yesterday from the cinemas. While I understood the literal meaning of the words, it is only recently that I learned that “Where are my children?” referred to a 1916 film…

The tenets of the CBC prove the negative eugenic agenda behind Dr Marie Stopes’ Mothers’ Clinic and promotion of birth-control. Article 16 shows that Stopes did not want to give all woman choice, but to give choice only to the “right” women. The others would be prevented from having children.