Letter from Jonah Goldstein to Miss Anne Rochester, Children's Bureau and Reply

This item includes Jonah Goldstein's March 24, 1917 letter to the Children's Bureau regarding the arrest of Margaret Sanger, birth control and abortion and the March 26, 1917 reply from the Children's Bureau.

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4-0-5 March 26, 1917. Mr. Jonah J. Goldstein, 366 Broadway, New York, N. Y. RETURN TO FHLES My dear Mr. Goldstein, BUREAB, Your letter of March 24 has just come in. The Children's Bureau has compiled no statistics about large families among poor people. You are doubtless familiar with the report on the Fecunditiy of Inmigrant Women contained in volume 28 of the Report of the Immigration Commission. On your second question, regarding the prevalency of abortion, it is suggested that you refer to Dr. J. Whitridge Williams Obstebtics (3d edition, 1913). page 627. A Under separate cover we are sending you copies of the bureau's report on infant mortality in Johnstown, Pao, and of the last annunl report of the chief in which a page is devoted to the findings of the bureau at Manchester, N. H. These will be of interest to you though they contain little or no material directly bearing on large families. I am, Very respectfully yours, In charge of publicity. R