It is not easy while preaching practical Malthusianism to the clergy to spend much fervour in preaching against practical Neo-Malthusianism to the laity.
27
McLean, "The Declining Birth-rate in Australia," International Medical Journal of Australasia, 1904.
28
Thus in France the low birth-rate is associated with a high infantile death-rate, which has not yet been appreciably influenced by the movement of puericulture in France. In England also, at the end of the last century, the declining birth-rate was accompanied by a rising infantile death-rate, which is now, however, declining under the influence of greater care of child-life.
29
Sidney Webb, Times, October 11 and 16, 1906; also Popular Science Monthly, 1906, p. 526.