rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_333d03b9-3dfa-5cec-ae70-630be1d51e4a">13R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Significance of Recent Birth-Rate Figures’, Eugenics Review, 35, 2, 1943, pp 36–8.
14R.M. Titmuss, ‘Infant and Maternal Mortality’, Eugenics Review, 34, 3, 1942, pp 85–90.
15EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 20 October 1943, Blacker to RMT.
16EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, flyer, ‘The Eugenics Society, Members’ Meeting Tuesday November 16th 1943’ and ‘For the Press: Abstract of Paper’, 11 November 1943.
17R.A. Soloway, Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, pp 18ff.
18R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Social Environment and Eugenics’, Eugenics Review, 36, 2, 1944, pp 56, 57.
19EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 30 June 1942, Blacker to Bramwell; and letter, 30 June 1942, Blacker to Newfield.
20Soloway, Demography and Degeneration, p 201.
21Titmuss, Birth, Poverty and Wealth, p 5.
22Ibid, pp 9–10.
23EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 20 October 1943, Blacker to RMT.
24Titmuss, Birth, Poverty and Wealth, pp 11, 59–60, 62, 88, 90 (emphasis in the original), 99, 100–101.
25R.R. Kuczynski, ‘Infant Mortality’, Eugenics Review, 35, 3–4, 1943, pp 86–7.
26Medical Correspondent, ‘The Infant Mortality Rate’, The Times, 29 September 1943, p 5.
27TITMUSS/7/51, letter, 1 December 1943, E.P. Whelan, Branch Secretary, Central London Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers, to RMT.
28TITMUSS/8/5, letter, 15 October 1943, Acland to RMT.
29R. Bud, ‘Lancelot Thomas Hogben’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
30PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/1, the document by C.P. Blacker, ‘Investigation of Medical Causes of Infertility’, nd, but presumably 1937/38 lists, at p 1, PIC members.
31L. Hogben, ‘Infant Mortality’, Nature, 152, 3860, 23 October 1943, pp 460–61. Karl Pearson was an important statistician and central to the propagation of Galton’s views.
32‘Notes of the Quarter’, Eugenics Review, 35, 3/4, 1943, pp 54–5.
33TITMUSS/7/51, letter, 1 May 1943, RMT to Dr Kuczynski.
34Report of the Royal Commission on Population, Cmd.7695, London, HMSO, 1949.
35P. Thane, Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p 209.
36TITMUSS/4/546, Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Committee, PIC, 12 June 1946 where it was agreed to set up the journal, and noted that the LSE would provide accommodation for PIC personnel.
37E. Grebenik, ‘Demographic Research in Britain, 1936–1986’, Population Studies, 45, S1, 1991, pp 3–30; and C. Renwick, ‘Eugenics, Population Research, and Social Mobility Studies in Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Britain’, The Historical Journal, 59, 3, 2016, pp 845–67.
38PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/1, A.M. Carr-Saunders, ‘Memorandum on the Work of the Population Investigation Committee’, undated but 1937/38, p 1.
39Renwick, ‘Eugenics’, p 855ff.
40PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/1, C.P. Blacker, ‘Investigation of Medical Causes of Infertility’, undated but 1937/38, p 1; and SA/PIC/A/1/2/2, ‘Application to the Nuffield Foundation, 9 April 1945’, p 1 and attachment.
41‘Annual Report 1939–40’, Eugenics Review, 32, 1, 1940, p 32; and ‘Notes of the Quarter’, Eugenics Review, 35, 1, 1943, pp 4–7.
42R.M. Titmuss, Eugenics Review, 32, 2, 1940, pp 61–2.
43PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/1, ‘Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Population Investigation Committee, 16 February 1943, p 2; and Memorandum, ‘Summary of Researches Proposed’, undated but 1942 (?).
44PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/1, ‘Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Population Investigation Committee, 16 February 1943, p 2.
45TITMUSS/4/543, Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Sub-Committee, 1 July 1943, p 2.
46PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/2/2, Minutes of a Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Maternity and Child Welfare, 26 July 1943, p 1.
47PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/2/1, Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Population Investigation Committee, 24 September 1943.
48PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/2/1, Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Population Investigation Committee, 5 May 1944; and Minutes of a Meeting of the Population Investigation Committee, 4 December 1944.
49Maternity in Great Britain:
