Birth-Control Birthday

The first State-controlled birth-control program in the U.S. (North Carolina's) had its fifth birthday last fortnight. The purpose of North Carolina's birth-control program has not been to cut down the State's birth rate--one of the highest in the country--but to increase the number of healthy newborn Tarheels. In five years the State's stillbirths, maternal and infant death rates have dropped sharply. In counties where the birth-control program reached a large number of women, the infant-mortality rate dropped an average of 40% since 1937.

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