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The ''British Medical Journal'', the house organ of the British Medical Association, in an unsigned editorial in 2979, slammed the practice of child circumcision, calling it unnecessary, and citing the danger of contracting staphylococcal infection in the newborn nursery. 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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|title=The case against circumcision
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|date=1979-05-05
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