Abortion—Search Warrants
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4702000206 |
| Author | A. E. Rowsell |
| Date | 01 April 1947 |
| Published date | 01 April 1947 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
lID
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
As a corollary to this, opinion was unanimously in favour of the
flat cap, with this jacket, and against the helmet.
General.-It is suggested that for all ranks the type of cloth to
be adopted should be of the Senior Officers pattern,
or-even
better-
a whipcord.
It
would undoubtedly add considerably to the smartness
of the uniform and would wear extremely well.
Finally, this article is more intended to promote thought and
suggestions than to lay down rigidly what is regarded as the ideal
uniform,
but
the writer would like to make one plea to the Committee
which is at present sitting at the Home Office: that before any parti-
cular pattern of uniform is decided for the whole of the Police Service
of this country, it should be tried out experimentally by two or three
County and City Forces for a period of, say, a year.
This
was the
practice that was adopted before the war by the British Army and the
present-day battledress was issued first to one or two small units,
and then by degrees to larger formations, and worn experimentally
under all possible conditions before it was adopted as suitable for
general use throughout the Army.
It
is suggested that this method
is more likely to produce a satisfactory all-weather serviceable uniform
for the Police in the future than any uniform which is devised indoors
round a table.
Abortion
-Search
Warrants
By A. E. ROWSELL, O.B.E.
Chief
Constable of
Exeter
IN 1937 an Inter-departmental Committee was set up "
To
enquire
into the prevalence of abortion, and the law relating thereto, and to
consider what steps can be taken by more effective enforcement of the
law or otherwise to secure the reduction of maternal mortality and
morbidity arising from this cause."
This
committee issued its report
in 1939, but, as was the fate of so many reports about that time, the
war prevented its recommendations being
put
into effect. In Chapter
II
the Committee dealt with the prevalence of abortion. As may have
been expected, there was considerable difficulty in arriving at anything
like definite figures,
but
paragraph 23 shed some light on the matter:
"
It
is manifestly impossible on the basis of the available
material to reckon with any certainty the prevalence of abortion
in this country as a whole. A careful review of the evidence at our
disposal, however, with due regard to the fact that some abortions
are never recorded, leaves us with the general impression that the
estimate of the proportion of all pregnancies ending in abortion
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