The Evils of Intermarriage.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 235, 7 April 1897, Page 2

The Evils of Intermarriage.

The evils of intermarriage have been plainly shown by the experience of Dr Campbell, the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum at Garlands, Cumberland. In the course of a paper read at the meeting of the British Medical Association he pointed out that in his part of the country marriages with blood relations were often contracted with the object of keeping a small property in the same family, or increasing a property by union. Dr Campbell further alluded to one district where most of the land belonged to small owners of the same stock, who have intermarried, and at the present time several of the children of these families are inmates of the asylum. Thus, lit would appear in these instances to be the case that where wealth increases, reason diminishes. Nature knows her business, and refuses to be cajoled merely for the sake of allowing avarice to be satisfied. If the practice of the Cumberland families was to be followed, ob viously the world would rapidly become a huge lunatic asylum, and all human energy and enterprise would speedily come to an end.