Poisoned in the Cradle.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 220, 21 September 1904, Page 3

Poisoned in the Cradle.

JJQLY FACTS ABOI IT PHYSICAL j DEGENEI LACV. ffiopleaaant facts calculated to wound the national jTitle are found Iby the hundred in I he report oi the aelett Committee on physical lA<jteri o naiion, remarks the llaily Mail. Alcoholism, abuse of tea, ttat feet, impaired vision, ba< 1 teeth, laziness, .and unwholesome to >d ate some ol ihe subjects on whic h evidence was '.given toy the witness ». |' General Sir Fredei ick Maurice, ont «f - our foremost so kliers, said that on Mafeking night h z walked lrom Charing Cross to Cl nnonrstreet. He .went through the w hole crowd, and did not see a dozeln men that he could have enlisted On the subject of youthful drinkers the General referret to j a " little puny, three-year-old child! in a hospital at Blockheatl whti hud had u jifnny given to him lo plliy with, and Abe poor little »t. -ich (held out lii.s Aand to every visit* ir wi Lh the penny in it, asking them i,o get him "just .a ha-porth of gin." it was his one JSe» oI the way to i ise a penny. Gin was the ideal c f haj pinees. Inguiries show thi it "gin-livers" for under th. -eo \ ?ars of age '.were a common ex periei ice of hospi.tal practice. Tea and coffee kas di mounced ai ►deleterious by I>r. IHay, i'.U.(J.H.,whu ..was just as sever® upon beer. Wo.men were described! by I Ir. Eicholz as worse topers than linen. Drink, cou- , plod with laziness; was at the root •ol many of the evUJs ofJdegeneracy. Sir William TayVor, iJirector-Gener- - sal of the Army Mladicalj Service, said ■■M thai the wearing lof cljogs I>ad much A ' to do with causinjg flat! feet. He did • mot believe in soldiers (wearing eye-

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