HEALTH OF WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 June 1907, Page 4

HEALTH OF WOMEN.

iJr li. U- Rcntoul mado a vigorous attack oil the national inflect of woman's health, which, he stys, U ocr greatest uaiiunal asset, in an address at the Institute of Hygiene in Devonshin- street. W., recently.

"Man," in- declared, "'by failing to give tin; order oi' merit to tlic right woimm, has produced a type of female who is a compound of the hysterical, neurotic, degenerate and fionn.times t!ie criminal. Tlie child-hating mswried woman (a not insiguilic.int quantity) whose demoralised desires are limited to a rich a Hat, a poodle dog, and a male hangeiv on, a product of our modern civilisation and a menace to our race.

"The wonuin who deserves the order of merit is the phy>ically and mentally healthy woman, who represents *hc iiiost thing in life—motherhood/' He suggested that if the law raised the age of marriage to twenty-five ye irs in the man. and twenty-one in the woman, required a prenuptial eortilicat" of good health, inade it illegal for the diseased to marry, abolished actions for breach of promise where existing disease could be proved, prohibited pauper* ami vagrants from marrying, taxed bachelors and reduced taxation to those who liad large families., it would go a long way to increase the sum total of human happiness, and there would le fewer separation*, fewer squalid homes, and fwr degenerate childrn.