href="#ulink_88927601-3f1e-5558-99e2-171ace8a6520">10Ibid, pp 308–9, 3–4.
11B.S. Rowntree, ‘The Waste of Life’, The Listener, 8 December 1938, Supplement p xix.
12TITMUSS/3/399, letter, 24 October 1962, RMT to Tom Simey, University of Liverpool. Simey had written the entry on Rowntree for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
13For a survey of material of this sort, and a critique of official attitudes, C. Webster, ‘Healthy or Hungry Thirties?’, History Workshop, 13, Spring 1982, pp 110–29.
14Titmuss, Poverty and Population, p xxiv.
15EUGENICS, SA/EUG/A/1/32, Eugenics Society, Annual Report, 1939–40.
16EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 16 November 1941, RMT to Blacker.
17EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 19 November 1941, Blacker to RMT.
18R.C. Whiting, ‘Political and Economic Planning’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
19‘The Coming Fall in Population’, Planning, 73, 21 April 1936, pp 3–15; and ‘Population Facts and Trends’, Planning, 165, 9 April 1940, pp 3–15.
20For a favourable reference to Graunt, see R.M. Titmuss, Birth, Poverty and Wealth: A Study of Infant Mortality, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1943, p 94.
21RMT, review of Major Greenwood, Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr, in The Economic History Review, 3, 1, 1950, p 146. I am grateful to Dr Margaret Pelling for this reference.
22TITMUSS/7/47, letter, 31 January 1939, RMT to Singer; and letter, 2 February 1939, Singer to RMT.
23TITMUSS/7/48, letter, 29 July 1940, RMT to Ministry of Information.
24D. Todman, Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941, London, Allen Lane, 2016, Ch 15.
25R.M. Titmuss, ‘Aliens and Refugees’, Eugenics Review, 32, 4, January 1941, pp 136–7.
26R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Cost of Living and Dying’, The New Statesman and Nation, 5 April 1941, p 357.
27R.M. Titmuss, letter, ‘Medical Statistics in Wartime’, British Medical Journal, II, 1941, p 562.
28TITMUSS/7/47, letter, 9 March 1939, John Humphrey, UCH Medical Society, to RMT.
29Oakley, Man and Wife, p 81.
30N. Joicey, ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935–c.1951’, Twentieth Century British History, 4, 1, 1993, p 31.
31Todman, Britain’s War: Into Battle, p 107ff where the author talks of a ‘reading “Popular Front”’.
32F. Le Gros Clark and R.M. Titmuss, Our Food Problem: A Study of National Security, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1939, pp 91–2, 176–7, 178, 182.
33TITMUSS/7/47, letter, 28 July 1939, Le Gros Clark to RMT.
34E.F. Rathbone, The Case for Family Allowances, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1940, pp 51–2 and prefatory ‘Note’.
35Oakley, Man and Wife, pp 126–7.
36TITMUSS/4/534, undated, unsigned, seven-page typescript, p 7.
37A. Oakley, Women, Peace and Welfare: A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880–1920, Bristol, Policy Press, 2018, pp 7–8.
38Ibid, p 146.
39TITMUSS/7/48, letter, 10 September 1940, RMT to Martin.
40EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 16 November 1941, RMT to Blacker.
41TITMUSS/7/47, letter, 22 March 1939, RMT to Editors, Population Index, School of Public Affairs, Princeton University.
42R.M. Titmuss, ‘Hitler’s Man-Power Problem’, The Spectator, 20 October 1939, pp 539–40.
43R.J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, London, Allen Lane, 2008, p 543.
44R.M. Titmuss, ‘Rassenhygiene’, Eugenics Review, 32, 2, July 1940, pp 62–4, reviewing M. Gumpert, Heil Hunger!
45EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333 letter, 18 September 1939, RMT to Grant-Duff; the book alluded to was R.R. Kuczynski, Living Space and Population Problems, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1939.
46Oakley, Man and Wife, p 113.
47TITMUSS/7/54, letter, 15 March 1946, RMT to Under Secretary of State, the Home Office.
48TITMUSS/7/49, letters, 28 February 1941 Ambros to RMT, 2 March 1941, RMT to Ambros, 17 March 1941, RMT to Ambros.
49Todman, Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941, p 158ff.
