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PRESS RELEASE ON THE COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE FOR<\/p>\n

Dr. DOROTHEA\u00a0 W.\u00a0 SINTON\u00a0 M.B., Ch.B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1899\u00a0 to\u00a0 1987<\/p>\n

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On\u00a0 Friday September 23rd\u00a0 at 12 noon,\u00a0 a commemorative plaque will be unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle\u00a0 at\u00a0 18 North Avenue in Gosforth.\u00a0 This is to mark the significant contribution of Dr. Dorothea W. Sinton to medical and wellbeing services to the poorest women in Newcastle,\u00a0 particularly in providing birth control advice which was in its infancy in the 1920\u2019s.\u00a0 This was during a period when birth control was considered\u00a0 against the teaching of established religious groups. and women found it extremely difficult to secure gynaecological support.<\/p>\n

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This event welcomes members of the public to come and honour a pioneering woman in our city.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plaque is being sponsored by Soroptimist International Newcastle upon Tyne,\u00a0 a voluntary women\u2019s organisation dedicated\u00a0 to educating, enabling and empowering women to have an equal voice in our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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During the 1920\u2019s, there was extensive public debate about the rights and wrongs of birth control.\u00a0 Advice clinics run by voluntary organisations consolidated their positions, and the fight centred on seeking to remove an official ban which prevented Local Authorities from providing contraception services.\u00a0\u00a0 Into this fray entered Dr Dorothea Sinton, a newly qualified doctor who had trained at Liverpool Medical School qualifying in 1923, marrying\u00a0 John Harold Sinton from the Wirral in the same year and subsequently they moved to Newcastle upon Tyne.<\/p>\n

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At the same time progress was being made in Newcastle when a visiting representative from the beginnings of what was to become the \u2018Family Planning Association\u2019 in London, Mrs Tamplin, arrived to form a voluntary committee to start a Women\u2019s Advisory Clinic.\u00a0 She\u00a0 found the first premises to be used as a clinic at 670 Scotswood Road which had been a pawn shop in a slum area. It was primitive, rat infested and all hot water had to be heated on a primus stove.\u00a0 However, the progress on forming a supportive committee and attracting funds was more difficult due to the prevailing attitude that this type of medical service was somewhat wicked and immoral.\u00a0 The ladies who were interested in supporting the project could not tell their husbands the truth and the local clergy and medical practitioners were against any progress.\u00a0 Then in 1929,\u00a0 Dr Sinton became the brave pioneer to move this project forward and,\u00a0 as a new and independent doctor in the city, was able to direct and progress the aim of bringing free medical services to the poorest women who already had large families to raise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The establishment\u00a0 of this first Clinic was uphill work and initial funding came from donations of\u00a0 \u00a3100 each from Lady Denham and the Durham Miners Welfare Committee.\u00a0 It was uphill work to begin with, as local doctors and clergy had to think of their own bread and butter before linking their names to birth control.<\/p>\n

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It was a struggle to form a committee of local and influential women\u00a0 to run and raise funds to continue and expand the Women\u2019s Advisory Clinic\u00a0 but in 1934 the clinic was able to move from 670 Scotswood Road to improved premises at 24 Shieldfield Green due to the ongoing support of Dr Sinton\u2019s husband.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Woman came for all kinds of gynaecological conditions, as well as for birth control, as they had never had a woman Doctor in the area before.\u00a0 They also came for advice on infertility, which Dr Sinton describes as surprisingly successful given the resources that she had.\u00a0 She was fortunate in finding Mrs. Murray Brooks who worked with her for over 20 years as her Nursing Superintendent who had extensive experience of nursing throughout World War One also in less than ideal conditions.<\/p>\n

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Dr Sinton fought publicly for the equal rights to education for women,\u00a0 and the recognition of the role of women doctors.\u00a0 In April 1943, she had a letter published in the British Medical Journal advocating the role of women doctors working alongside their male counterparts.\u00a0 She asked her medical colleagues to\u00a0\u00a0 \u201clook at past and prevailing social and economic conditions in order to discover the causes of the declining birth rate.\u00a0 The reasons, for the existence of contraception services was to enable motherhood,\u00a0 not to degrade it.\u00a0 There is nothing dignified in a diseased woman bringing a sickly child into a poverty-stricken household \u201c.\u00a0 Later Dr Sinton was able to open additional Clinics in the colliery villages around Ashington and Sunderland.<\/p>\n

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This Commemorative Plaque provided by the City of Newcastle upon Tyne has been sponsored by Soroptimist International Newcastle upon Tyne club who strive to improve the inequalities in the recognition of the contribution that unique women made to our City.\u00a0 Dr Dorothea Sinton and Mrs. Murray Brooks were founder members of this worldwide women\u2019s\u00a0 voluntary organisation when the Newcastle club was chartered in 1937.\u00a0 Their contribution to the improvement in the health and wellbeing of women on Tyneside will not be forgotten.<\/p>\n

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