Richard Titmuss. Stewart, John
examines further aspects of his media profile.
Notes
1‘Annual Report, 1939–40’, Eugenics Review, 32, 1, 1940, p 32.
2EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.33, letter, 18 September 1939, RMT to Ursula Grant-Duff.
3‘Notes of the Quarter’, Eugenics Review, 32, 2, 1940, pp 47–8.
4‘Eugenics Society: Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Council’, Eugenics Review, 37, 2, 1945, p 73.
5‘Annual Report, 1941–2’, Eugenics Review, 34, 1, 1942, p 40.
6‘Notes of the Quarter’, Eugenics Review, 33, 4, 1942, pp 99–105.
7‘Notes of the Quarter’, Eugenics Review, 34, 1, 1942, pp 3–9.
8R.M. Titmuss and F. Lafitte, ‘Eugenics and Poverty’, Eugenics Review, 33, 4, 1942, pp 106–12 (emphasis in the original).
9‘Eugenic Aspects of Social Security’, Eugenics Review, 36, 1, 1944, pp 17–24.
10L. Bland and L. Hall, ‘Eugenics in Britain: The View from the Metropole’, in A. Bashford and P. Levine (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, p 218.
11C. Lawrence and G. Weisz, ‘Medical Holism: The Context’, in C. Lawrence and G. Weisz (eds), Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920–1950, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998, p 7.
12R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Effect of the War on the Birth Rate’, Eugenics Review, 34, 1, 1942, p 12.
13R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Significance of Recent Birth-Rate Figures’, Eugenics Review, 35, 2, 1943, pp 36–8.
14R.M. Titmuss, ‘Infant and Maternal Mortality’, Eugenics Review, 34, 3, 1942, pp 85–90.
15EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 20 October 1943, Blacker to RMT.
16EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, flyer, ‘The Eugenics Society, Members’ Meeting Tuesday November 16th 1943’ and ‘For the Press: Abstract of Paper’, 11 November 1943.
17R.A. Soloway, Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, pp 18ff.
18R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Social Environment and Eugenics’, Eugenics Review, 36, 2, 1944, pp 56, 57.
19EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 30 June 1942, Blacker to Bramwell; and letter, 30 June 1942, Blacker to Newfield.
20Soloway, Demography and Degeneration, p 201.
21Titmuss, Birth, Poverty and Wealth, p 5.
22Ibid, pp 9–10.
23EUGENICS, SA/EUG/C.333, letter, 20 October 1943, Blacker to RMT.
24Titmuss, Birth, Poverty and Wealth, pp 11, 59–60, 62, 88, 90 (emphasis in the original), 99, 100–101.
25R.R. Kuczynski, ‘Infant Mortality’, Eugenics Review, 35, 3–4, 1943, pp 86–7.
26Medical Correspondent, ‘The Infant Mortality Rate’, The Times, 29 September 1943, p 5.
27TITMUSS/7/51, letter, 1 December 1943, E.P. Whelan, Branch Secretary, Central London Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers, to RMT.
28TITMUSS/8/5, letter, 15 October 1943, Acland to RMT.
29R. Bud, ‘Lancelot Thomas Hogben’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
30PIC, SA/PIC/A/1/1, the document by C.P. Blacker, ‘Investigation of Medical Causes of Infertility’, nd, but presumably 1937/38 lists, at p 1, PIC members.
31L. Hogben, ‘Infant Mortality’, Nature, 152, 3860, 23 October 1943, pp 460–61. Karl Pearson was an important statistician and central to the propagation of Galton’s views.
32‘Notes of the Quarter’, Eugenics Review, 35, 3/4, 1943, pp 54–5.
33TITMUSS/7/51, letter, 1 May 1943, RMT to Dr Kuczynski.
34Report of the Royal Commission on Population, Cmd.7695, London, HMSO, 1949.
35P. Thane, Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p 209.
36TITMUSS/4/546, Minutes of a Meeting of the General Purposes Committee, PIC, 12 June 1946 where it was agreed to set up the journal, and noted that the LSE would provide accommodation for PIC personnel.
37E. Grebenik, ‘Demographic Research in Britain, 1936–1986’, Population Studies, 45, S1, 1991, pp 3–30; and C. Renwick, ‘Eugenics, Population Research, and Social Mobility Studies in Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Britain’, The Historical Journal, 59, 3, 2016, pp 845–67.