Evidence placed before the Committee showed that, a profit up to 300 per cent. was being made on contraceptive appliances.
We recommend that the restriction on the advertisement of contraceptives should be more rigidly enforced, and particularly that the promiscuous advertisement and sale of contraceptives by "mail order" agencies should be made illegal.
We recommend that it should be made unlawful to supply contraceptives to young persons.
Difficulties and possibilities of evasion are of course obvious, but, nevertheless, similar restrictions have been applied with at least some measure of success in other directions.
We would also appeal to the Pharmaceutical Society and to the individual chemists, since the responsibility rests so largely with them, to co-operate most earnestly in this matter.
With regard to abortifacients, the recommendations we later make apply with even greater force to unmarried women.
Several witnesses, speaking on behalf of women's organizations, advocated the introduction of women police for the guidance and protection of the young in places of public resort.
Reference to the effect of alcohol on moral restraint has already been made.
The second big consideration is the care of the unmarried woman who is in trouble.
It has been suggested that if there were a more tolerant attitude towards such girls many who now resort to abortion would be prepared to go forward and face the future.