HUMAN WELFARE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 June 1925, Page 9

HUMAN WELFARE.

DANGER, TO I CI VILISATION

INCREASE 1 IN POPULATION

AN OUTSPOKEN BISHOP

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received June 1, 11.35 a.m. LONDON. May 31. Bishop Barnes, at Birmingham, delivered a most striking address at a service held, .in connection with the Institute of Public Health Congress at Brighton. He .said that human welfare was now menaced by human fecundity ; that civilisation was in danger Of ' being choked by human, waste products. The question aiose whether the social conscience was now conniving at racial degeneration. Better classes were increasing slowly, if at. all. The victory of medicine and hygiene over Nature’s destructive forces would be disastrous to public welfare unites the desire lor many children which was natural, and till recently laudable, was held in check. He believed the limit hail been reached in the population of the British. Isles. More might, be done to, prevent the present reckless chiltl-beearing. It was gravely wrong that children swarmed in overcrowded slums, Furtlier increase of population must be worthy or immigration. Jt- would be ,said that parents with large families were obeying the law to “increase and multiply and replenish the earth,’’ but it was only evading serious thought to quote the text, which was not applicable to modern conditions. —Aus. N. Z. Cable Assn. ...