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Footnotes 1225
Calculated from census data by Richard Sterner and Associates, The Negroes Share^
prepared for this study (1943), Appendix Table 17. Also see Notestein, of. cit.y and
Kirk, of. cit.y pp. 51-65.
Raymond Pearl, “Fertility and Contraception in Urban Whites and Negroes,”
Science (May, 1936), pp. 503-506. Also see by the same author, The Natural History
of Pofulation (1939), p. 1 1 3, fassim.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Vital Statistics—Sfecial Reforts: ig40y Vol, 14, No. 2,
p. 9.
^®Dorn, Of. cit.y (1942; first draft, 1940), pp. 35-44.
“Sterilization laws have been passed by 29 states, and over l,000 operations have
been performed in each of 7 states, namely, California, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Oregon, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The total number of sterilizations performed in the
TJnited States up to January i, 1940, was approximately 33,000 of which 17,212 were
on insane cases and 15,231 on feeble-minded; 592 were sterilized for other reasons.”
(Publications of the Human Betterment Foundation, Pasadena, California [1940].
Cited by Osborn, of. cit.y p. 31.)
Practically every modern discussion of birth control in every scientific book and
every propaganda pamphlet contains a list of such reasons.
Official mortality statistics of the death registration states of 1930 which are
defective, not only in revealing total numbers of deaths, but also in classifying these
deaths by causes, show a syphilis rate of 42.5 for Negroes and 5.2 for whites (per
100,000 population, 1929-1931). Death rates may not accurately reflect the relative
incidence of syphilis, but Dorn summarizes sample studies which also show the Negro
rate to be between 3 and 9 times as great as the white rate in various communities.
(Dorn, Of. cit. [1940], p. 71.)
Recently some excellent data have become available on syphilis. Examination of the
first million draft registrants—^who are a selected sample of the population but a
significant sample—showed that the syphilis rate was 18.5 per thousand for whites and
241.2 for Negroes. That is, Negroes had 13 times as much syphilis as whites. (See:
New York Herald Tribune [October 16, 1941], p. 5; and ?M [February 10, 1942],
p- 20.)
Since much less is known about gonorrhea, and since it does not seem to be much
’more prevalent among Negroes than among whites, it will not be discussed here.
H. Poindexter, “Special Health Problems of Negroes in Rural Areas,” Journal of
Negro Education (July, 1937), p. 407.
On January l, 1940, there were 2,527 such clinics. Dorn, of. cit. (1940), p. 155.
^®The LaFollette-Bulwinkle Act (1938) authorized federal grants-in-aid to the
various states for venereal disease control.
®®Dorn, Of. cit.y (1940), p. ii4-b-3.
“For the most part, the only time that a doctor may legally interrupt pregnancy in
the United States is when its continuance threatens the life of a mother. Six states
Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
overlook even this contingency, having no specific provision for therapeutic abortion.
Seven states—^Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin
expressly require medical advice prior to the act, while thirty-one states, including New
York, sanction abortion to save the life of the mother, with no provision for medical
counsel. Only three states—Colorado, Maryland, and New Mexico—and the District
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