The Human Race.
MODERN LIVING METHODS.
VIEWS OF AMERICAN DOCTORS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] New York, January 9. Doctor Richard Smith, addressing the National Medical Conference at Rattle Creek, Michigan, on race betterment, said the imperfect type of women was fulqv represented by the slight, thin-chested nervous women so favored by fashion. He thought there was no real degeneracy in women, as the same physical defects were present in women of all ages. Modern methods of living had not proved more disastrous to women than to men.
Doctor Lauglin urged sterilisation in order to prevent the propagation of bad types. Society, by permitting the sale of tobacco and liquors, encouraged mental defection, which resulted in crime.
Doctor Stephen Smith, who is aged ninety-two, urged that man’s normal! life limit was a hundred.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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134The Human Race. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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