call the midwife

At the moment I am reading "Call the Midwife" by Jennifer Worth, it's a really interesting non-fiction book about the life of a midwife in the East End of London in the 50s (this, quite clearly has nothing to do with my uni courses...but I don't care! I picked it up in the tiny Moorland Rd library. i love libraries.)
The book is really interesting, and a little squeemy making...
An interesting fact:
p.5
"The Pill was introduced in the early 1960s and modern woman was born. Women were no longer going to be tied to the cycle of endless babies: they were going to be themselves. ... In the 1950s we [I presume she means the midwives in the East End area here] had 80-100 deliveries a month on our books. In 1963 the number had dropped to four or five a month. Now that is some social change!"

crazy statistic. no wonder we have an aging population!