Artificial Insemination by husband

The go-ahead for the establishment of a ‘baby bank’ for the storage of sperm in North Devon has been given by the North Devon Hospital Management Committee.

Facilities for the purposes of AIH – artificial insemination by husband – will be provided initially.

Should a ‘by donor’ service become national policy then the facilities could be used for it, said hospital group secretary, Mr J C Woolley, after the meeting at which the decision was reached. An application for it to be set up had come from Mr J M McGarry, the group’s newly appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist.

The full Gazette article is dated 6 April 1951