STUDY OF EUGENICS.
A PRESSING NEED.
ABOLISHING DECADENCE.
. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright '■;''. London, July 25. At the British Medical Congress at Liverpool Sir James Barr said that doctors must not rest content with the mere treatment of disease. They must instil into' the minds' of the public the value of higher intellectual and physical health. The time was ripe for dealing with mental weaklings in an attempt to abolish the present decadence.
In a speech at the Eugenics Congress Mr. A. J Balfour said that the Congress had to convince the public that the study of eugenics was a most pressing'necessity. The task, he said, was the most difficult one that science had ever undertaken.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 7
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