LOVE MATCHES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1537, 5 September 1912, Page 5

LOVE MATCHES.

FROM THE EUGENIC POINT OF VIEW. By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-Copjtlgut (Rec. September 4, 10.15 p.m.) London, September 4. Sir James Crichton-Browne, in his speech as president of the Sanitary Inspectors' Congress at Sheffield, referred to tho question of eugenics, and said love matches were more likely to improve the health of future generations than conventional alliances. ITo lamented the fact that rank and social influence and the cash nexus were the dominant factors in marriage. Sanitation should precede and not follow the education of children, who should bo fed before they were crammed with knowledge. He advocated the segregation of criminal, feeble-minded, and physically unlit children, and the life-long seclusion of the worst habitual criminals without punitive imprisonment. Notwithstanding its bureaucratic tendencies, the Insurance Act would be an involnablo help in stamping out tuberculosis, which would disappear in two or three generations. ' ;