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    "title": "Letter from Jonah Goldstein to Miss Anne Rochester, Children's Bureau and Reply",
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    "ocrText": "INDIKED 4-0-5\nMarch 26, 1917.\nMr. Jonah J. Goldstein,\n366 Broadway,\nNew York, N. Y.\nRETURN TO FILES\nMy dear Mr. Goldstein,\nBHILDREN'S BUREAU,\nYour letter of March 24 has just come in. The\nChildren's Bureau has compiled no statistics about large\nfamilies among poor people.\nYou are doubtless familiar with the report on the\n*\nFecunditiy of Inmigrant Women contained in volume 28\nof the Report of the Immigration Commission.\nOn your second question, regarding the prevalency\nof abortion, it is suggested that you refer to Dr.\nJ. Whitridge Williams' Obstetrics (3d edition, 1913),\npage 627.\nUnder separate cover we are sending you copies of\nthe bureau's report on infant mortality in Johnstown,\nPa., and of the last annual report of the chief in which\na page is devoted to the findings of the bureau at\nManchester, N. H. These will be of interest to you\nthough they contain little or no material directly\nbearing on large families.\nI am,\nVery respectfully yours,\nIn Charge of publicity.\nR\n628 N 1\nJONAH J.GOLDSTEIN\n366 BROADWAY\nNEW YORK\nBlid edition (1913)\n4627\nNew York, March 24th, 1917.\nMiss Anne Rochester,\nChildren's Bureau,\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Miss Rochester:-\nYou have no doubt heard of the\narrest of Margaret Sanger, for disseminat-\ning \"Birth Control\" information, and you\nprobably know that she did this with a\nview to arousing interest in the question\nof \"Birth Control\", so that better laws\ncould be made. In trying to defend her, I\nfind it very necessary to have statistics\nrelating to large families among poor people.\nWould you be kind enough to see whether there\nis any such material gathered in your bureau\nand forward to me anything that you think\ncould be used in along this line.\nHas there been any statistics\ngathered on the prevalency of abortion?\nVery truly yours,\nJJG/PB."
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