A DOCTOR’S DREAM.

Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 2

A DOCTOR’S DREAM.

MERRIE ENGLAND OF THE FUTURE

A picture of a future hygienic Utopia under an autocratic Ministry of Health was drawn by Dr. J. Walter Carr in the annual oration of the London Medical Society, Ghandos 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 at. the. Municipal Maternity Hospital, after which, the Infant. Clinic or Welfare Centre 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 iis appendix, tonsils, and other useless organs were removed, after which it would he 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' working years of life are past, men and women will be transferred 1o the care of a Special Medical Department of the State dealing with old people, where, with ade- . quate pensions and amid comfortable ( and tranquil surroundings, they will await a peaceful ending to life from painless senile decay.