Race Betterment
ARE WOMEN DEGENERATING'/ VIEWS OF AXIKIIiCAN DOCTORS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 9, 11 p.m. New York, January it. Doctor Richard Smith, addressing the National Medical Conference at Battle Creelc, Michigan, on race betterment, said the imperfect type of women was fully represented by the slight, thinchested nervous women . so favored by fashion, lie thought there was no real degeneracy in women; as the same physical defects were present in women of all ages. Xlodern 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 tvpes. 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 thai man's normal life limit was a hundred.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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134Race Betterment Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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