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The ''British Medical Journal'', the house organ of the [https://www.bma.org.uk British Medical Association], in an unsigned editorial in 1979, slammed the practice of child circumcision, calling it unnecessary, and citing the danger of contracting staphylococcal infection in the newborn nursery. <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Van Howe |first= |init=RS |author-link= |last2=Robson |first2= |init2=WM |author2-link= |etal=no |title=The possible role of circumcision in newborn outbreaks of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus |trans-title= |language= |journal= Clin Pediatr (Phila) |location= |date=2007-05 |volume=46 |issue=4 |article= |page= |pages=356-8 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=17475996 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1177/0009922806294847 |accessdate=2021-09-10}}</ref> The editorial reported that the incidence of newborn circumcision in Britain had dropped from one-third in the 1930s to one
fifth in 1949, to ten percent in 1963, and to six percent in 1975.<ref name="bmj1979">{{REFjournal
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