EUGENICS SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1202, 10 August 1911, Page 2

EUGENICS SOCIETY.

— » SOME INTERESTING TOPICS/ Tlie industrial school system and thft need of better provision, for the training of mentally, defective children are to be discussed at tho next meeting of the Eugenics Society, to ho • held at the Museum on Monday evening next.. It is stated that there arc- numbers of such children attending the city schools, where thoy cannot receive any adequate attention, and where they are often a source of contamination to the healthy children. The paper on the industrial school system is to be read by Mr. E. Pope. . Tho socictv will also discuss ut tho same meeting a proposal that, to enable statistics to bq compiled showing the numbers of diseased and defective persons marrying, everyone should be compelled to undergo a medical examination When obtain-, ing'a marriage license. The idea, it is understood, is. not to prevent the physically and mentally unfit from marrying by law, but merely 'to obtain definite data for tho whole community, and in some degree to save people from rushing blindly into matrimonial alliances with persons tainted with insanity or some serious disease likely to mar the happiness of a marriage. ■ The meetings of the society are open to all who feel interested in the subjects to bo discussed.