16 MARCH 1934, Page 21

THE LIMITS OF BIRTH-CONTROL [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—I have not noticed in this discussion any reference to the very important difference in the strain of self-control imposed on a working-class married couple and on a couple of the better-to-do classes.

Your letters advocating self-control come, I imagine, from the latter group, but I have always felt how difficult it must be for a man and woman, year in and year out, who' have so little chance of physical separation such as is possible in most middle-class households.—I am, Sir, &c.,