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HEALTH MATTERS.

(Per Press Association.) / y. . DUNEDIN, last night. At the annual meeting of the Society for Promoting the Health of Women and Children to-day, Dr. P. C. Bat<;helor gav^ an address relating to his experiences and observations during 40 years* practice. In the course of his remarks he said lie was m sympathy with the higher education of women, if conducted on reasonable lines, but he contended that essentially physiological principles were totally ignored, and the present education system encouraged women to pursue a oours^ 'of study for ■which, nature never intended them. He referred to numerous- cases of young women suffering from nervous weaknesses and the like, and to their subsequent history if they married, and said the system that did not aim at preparing girls for domestic life was exercising a far-reaching and malign effect on the community. The Bpeaker also referred to the casual and haphazard manner m which, parents allowed _ their daughters to enter' matrimony,, without thought or scrutiny as to fitness of -the husband. He unhesitatingly asserted that a large percentage of men entered married life while suffering from the effect's of diseases likely s to endanger the health, and perhaps the life, of the wife, besides affecting the offspring. He asserted there were now thousands of innocent women suffering from the effects, of these maladies, while innumerable lives had "been lost and desperate operations vrere performed almost daily m the Dominion to relieve unfortunate sufferers. He advocated the State demanding thaEt m^n should submit to medical inspection to decide, tlieir fitness or otherwise before entering on matrimonial 'alliances. , V Other speakers N endoTsed Dr. Batchelor's view?. Mr G. M. Thomson, "M.'P., asked the societv to appoint a, committee to confer with the Technical School authorities with the object of having tuition m domestic economy p\it on a Satisfactory footing. ..-_i_Jm--

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11856, 20 May 1909, Page 3

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HEALTH MATTERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11856, 20 May 1909, Page 3

HEALTH MATTERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11856, 20 May 1909, Page 3

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