Medicine: More Babies

One of the first-day speakers at last week's World Congress on Fertility and Sterility, which met in Manhattan, told the 1,300 assembled delegates that they ought to be worried about the amount of fertility in the world already. He was Conservationist Fairfield (Our Plundered Planet) Osborn, who argued that the world's baby supply is sadly outstripping the food supply. Most of the delegates were in no great mood to worry. They were interested only in the problem of childless couples who want children.

Among the facts and conjectures produced in the seven-day session:

ΒΆ Emotional factors are enormously important in apparent sterility...

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