USE OF CRIMINALS.
SERVICE TO HUMANITY. LONDON, October 7. Death on the gallows or service to humanity on the operating table? Dr. Peter Meßride, a noted medical authoiv ity has written a book, "Doctors and Patients," in which he expresses the opinion that criminals should not be hanged or flogged, but 'should be used for medical and surgical experiments. "Violent criminals have sinned against their fellows, and it is logical that they should be asked to make restitution by useful service," Dr. MeBride says. ' "Nothing could be more beneficial than that their living bodies should be used as experiments. "The present law submits these criminals to objectless cruelty; the other course might, with less pain, make them agents ministering health and happiness to the community they had wronged.- Many new remedies would thus be more rapidly standardised."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 17, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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