The Chocolate Coated Pill

Abstract

From a dissertation on the side effects of Oral Contraceptives, read before the Society on Friday, 2nd December, 1966

The great increase in the world birth rate that is presently taking place, and which increases the population by 165,000 people per day, has been estimated to double the total human population by the turn of the century.

The problems set by such a rise in numbers is not confined to the East or to the “underdeveloped” countries of Africa, but is calculated to increase the population of Britain by 50% in those same thirty-odd years.