NATIONAL DECAY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 667, 20 October 1933, Page 5

NATIONAL DECAY

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startling figures lord holder Reveals some unPleasant facts NEED FOR EUGENICS

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

(Rec. 7.5 p.m.) Lbndon, October i8 Lord Horder, iri inaugurating tlhd post-gradiiate lectures at Hamjistead Hbspital, said that the liatibh'^i stockfaking had' produCed hiost uhpalathblfe facts; Eritaih, he said, had been staggered during the iF-ar to find that oiily one in three recruit^ aged from 17 to 18 years Was perfectly sound. To-day cfhe in 120 Was fefehle-nliridfed, oiie in 200 irisane, and one iri lt) over dril! and over-sickly tb be absorbed iri ihdustry. Tbe fiation was making an enormous expenditui'e to educate arid maintain these inefficieiits, said Lord Horder, btit this wds fiot ag seribus as the fact that the future stock was beirig contihually recruited thefefrom. He pointed out that tbe eugSnie movement should operate voluhtarily in advocating the sterilisation Of mental defectives and merital cbhvalescents. Lord Holder urged that eugenics should be taught to the medical students, thus reinforcing doctors with knowledge of maiiy diseaseS and enabling them to properly advise those contemplatiftg nlarriage. He f eared that many doctors were still unable to give scientific advice on contraceptioh.