EUGENICS IN PRACTICE.
PREVENTING RACE SUICIDE IN THE NETHERLANDS.
While eugenics is still only a matter of academic discussion among some progressive nations, the practical-mind-ed Dutch are putting it to the test. Mr E. B. Maxse, the British ConsulGeneral in the Netherlands, in his report for 1913, states that the committee for the study of public hygiene opened an office at The Hague during the year, at which a medical man attends daily to examine and give suitable advice to persons of both sexes intending to marry. The object is twofold—to prevent the union of the unfit and to check race suicide. The Consul also states that the first public crematorium for the incineration of corpses in the Netherlands was opened during the year, religious opposition having delayed the adoption of the system.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 8
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133EUGENICS IN PRACTICE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 8
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