HYGIENIC UTOPIA.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 474, 24 September 1923, Page 2

HYGIENIC UTOPIA.

A DOCTOR'S DREAM. A picture of a future hygienic Utopia under an autocratic Ministry for Health was drawn by Dr. J. .Walter Carr in the annual oration of the London Medical Society. He said:— We should all be examined, and our family history investigated before we were allowed to marry. The first expected child would have to be notified, the prospective mother's health taken charge of by the nearest antenatal clinic, the birth superintended at the nearest municipal maternity hospital, after which the infant clinic or welfare cent)'? would see that the child was properly fed. From the clinic the child would pass into the hands of the school medical officer, who would take care that its appendix, tonsils and other useless organs were removed, after which it would be passed on to the panel practitioner. It might then be found necessary to remove other organs, and of course there would be inoculation for everything. Teeth, as the source of septic conditions, would probably be drawn at an early stage. Finally, when the woi'king years of life are past, men and women will be transferred to the care of a special medical depratment of the State dealing with old people, where, with adequate pensions and amid comfortable and tranquil surroundings, they will await a peaceful ending to life from painless senile decay.