“MARRY EARLY”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 2

“MARRY EARLY”

ADVICE TO YOUNG GERLS. LONDON. Dec. 2S. ’'Girls should marry early,” says Sir James Crichton-Browne, the mental and nerve specialist, adding that young wedded women of up to 25 did not die of tuberculosis like the unmarried ones. Referring to recent medical reports stressing the increase in deaths from tuberculosis, Sir James, who is now S2 years of age, and who married his first wife when he was 25, attributed the fact that hundreds of young women wage-earners are suffering from the complaint, owing to the existing competitive era, representing a drastic change from the Victorian homekeeping.

Typists, clerks shop assistants and factory workers especially, ho said, were suffering owing to their working at high pressure, often in hadiv-ven-tilated premises. They had to turn out in all sorts of weather after a hurry-scurry breakfast, and often contracted colds, which they neglected while their meals generally were dieteticallv incorrect. Moreover, examinations, night classes, homework, cinemas, theatres and dancing prevented them getting the necessary rest.