A DOCTOR’S DREAM.

Otaki Mail, 7 September 1923, Page 3

A DOCTOR’S DREAM.

MERRIE, ENGLAND OF THE FUTL RE. \ picture of a future hygienic Utopia under an autocratic Ministry- of Health tvas drawn by Dr. J. Waiter C a rr in the annual oration of the London Medical Society, Chandos street, W. He said : We should all he 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 it the Municipal Maternity Hospital, after which the Infant Clinic or Welfare Centre would see that ihe child was properly fed. From the clinic the child would, pass into the hands of the -School Medical Officer, who would take cate that its appendix, tonsils, and other useless organs were removed, after which it would he passed on to the Panel Practitioner. I It might then he lound necessary Ito remove other organs, and, o j course, there would be inoculation tor everything. . . Hi j Teeth ns the source of septic > om.u Lions would probably be drawn a, j nn Fi e na r ilv. S when the working years ol 'life are. past, men and women j transferred to the care of Medical Department of the State dea ing with old people, where. u quate pensions and amul cornfortabl and tranquil surroundings, they »n await, a peaceful ending to life froir painless senile decay.