A DOCTOR'S DREAM

Evening Star, Issue 18339, 28 July 1923, Page 17

A DOCTOR'S DREAM

A picture of a future hygienic Utopia under an autocratic Ministry of Health was drawn by Dr J. Walter Carr at tho annual meeting of the London Medical Society, Chandos street, V/. He said: — Wo should all bo examined and our family history investigated before wo were allowed to marry. Tho first _ expected child would have to bo notified, the prospective mother’s health taken charge of by the nearest ante-natal clinic, the birth superintended at tho Municipal Maternity Hospital, after which the Qinio or Welfare Centre would see that the child was properly fed. From the clinic the child would pass Into tho hands of the School Medical Officer, who would take ca.ro that Its appendix, tonsils, and other useless organs were removed, after which it would bo passed on to the Panel Practitioner. It might then be found necessary to remove other organs, and, of course, there would bo inoculation for everything. Teeth, as the source of septic conditions, would probably bo drawn at on early stage. Finally, when the working years of life are past, men and women will bo transferred to tha care of a special medical department of the State dealing with old people where, with adequate pensions and amid comfortable and tranquil surroundings, they will await a peaceful ending to life from painless senile decay.