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Your report of Major Haverfield's declaration concerning illegitimate births in Scotland (TIME, Feb. 18) disclosed a situation most disturbing to lovers of the old country. If the statement that there are 68.9 illegitimate births per thousand population and 11.3 per thousand unmarried women may be taken as correct the number of unmarried women must be well over six times the total population...
...find that either Major Haverfield is rotten at arithmetic or else the married women of Scotland and England are most atrociously adulterous...
What Major Haverfield doubtless meant was 68.9 illegitimate births per 1,000 live births per year...
While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...
...main trouble with Scottish young people," concluded Major Haverfield, "is that they regard love with sloppy sentimentality, if I make myself clear, resulting in this tremendous number of illegitimate births...