20th April, 1941

We can see now why you’re so keen on your birth-control clinic...

Moya Woodside

Belfast Blitz writer & birth control campaigner

Sister in law, WVS member*, tells of the appalling influx from the slums the day after the raid […] I believe it is the same all over the countryside. At least it may do good in one way, if it makes people think about housing and homes in the slums.

Complacency and/or ignorance has been rudely shattered these last few days. ‘We can see now why you’re so keen on your birth-control clinic’, my sister-in-law remarked. I felt quite cheered.

*WVS: Women's Voluntary Services