HOW TO LIVE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 76, 21 July 1914, Page 4

HOW TO LIVE.

Dr Hardwick Smith, in the course of an address on "How to Live, ' which he gave at Wellington the other day, alter briefly outlining the work of the Eugenics Society in Well : rtgfcon, dealt with the law of preservation in its primitiveness, and said that ii we had kept some of the old ideas it would have been better, but we had uot. Governments were never going to influence the health of the rare alone. Coercion could not do it; thev must have the co-operation of i the people. One individual who broke the laws of health affected all those around k'lTO. If a child but carried out one health law a day and told others to do so, that child, he maintained, was fit to become a member of the Eugenics Society. What they wanted was to educate, so that the laws of health would be observed in every home, and untold misery would be averted thereby. He urged that they should teach children from the time they were born. They should give them natural food, and in this connection he mentioned that he had noticed very few children come into the hospital who had been fed upon these lines. Ho emphasised the necessity for cleanliness, making children wash their hands regularly before meals and to stop putting them in their mouths, the avoidance of overstrain, and for correct breathing, remarking in connection with the latter that he knew of few cases of consumption 'where the subjects had been correct breathers.