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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 24

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10 TUB EDITOB 0» THB TSESS. Sir,—After reading the letters of "Ex-Nurse" and "Ernest" in your columns, I have come to the conclusion that both these writers are due for a rest. "Ex-Nurse" writes that the whole problem of child life is in the hands of the parents for food or ill. Has "Ex-Nurse" ever studied Nature or observed the result of circumstances? The parents are certainly responsible for the child corning into the world, but after that we often have Nature or circumstances becoming ruling factors. "Ex-Nurse" asks: "Why blame the hospital administration for the disease?" I have never read of anyone doing this. "Ex-Nurse" writes: "The sins of the fathers," etc. Why not be modern and write the sins of the parents, etc'. She writes about the kindliest care and attention of the patient. On the male side of mental hospitals there is neither kindliness nor care of the epileptic patient. They are treated just the same as the insane. Mental hospitals were never built for epileptics, and they should not be there.—Yours, etc., CHAS. E. WILSON. Kaiapoi, March 4. 1938. TO THB EDITOB OJT THB PBE6B. Sir—l cannot agree with your correspondent in to-day's issue who quotes: "The sins of the fathers are visited unto the children to the third and fourth generation." Personally, I think that quotation is utterly dismal and hopeless, and quite against right living and right thinking. What an outlook for the newly born! Bernard Shaw says every generation should improve and be wiser and benefit by the weaknesses and faults of the previous generation. Especially is this right concerning the mentally afflicted and the diseased. Instead of saving that grandmother or greatgrandmother had tuberculosis, or was an epileptic, or mentally afflicted, so we must surely be the same, rebuild the body with the right vitamins and mineral salts and cast out wrong thoughts of having similar complaints. If each generation did this there would be no sins or diseases passed, on. American doctors are experimenting, and have cured numerous insane patients by giving them a properly halanced diet. I am sure if we all were to look back and hunt up records of some of our old ancestors we would be a P palled.-you M rs. T etc.. THiNKER March 4. 1938.