HEALTH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13908, 20 May 1909, Page 6

HEALTH.

DOCTOR SPEAKS PLAINLY. Per Press Association. DUXEDIX, May'l'J. At the annual meeting ot me Society tor tne i'romotion <jf the. xlcaith of \Vbmen and Children to-day, JJr r. C. Batclielor gave an address relating to his experiences and during 40 years' practice. He said ne was in sympathy with the higher education ot women, if conducted on reasonable lines, but ho contended tliat essential physiological principles were totally ignored and that the present education system encouraged women to pursue a course of study for winch nature never intended them. . He referred to the numerous cases of young women suffering from nervous weaknesses and to their subsequent lustory if they married and said that a system that did not aim at preparing girls for domestic life was exercising a farreaching and malign effect on the community. He also referred to the casual and haphazard manner in. which parents allowed their daughters to enter matrimony without thought or scrutiny as to the fitness of the husband. He unhesitatingly asserted that a large percentage of men entered married life while suffering from the effects of diseases likely to endanger the health and ]*?rliaps the life of the wife, besides affecting their offspring. He asserted that there were now thousands of innocent women suffering from the effects of these maladies, while innumerable l'.ves have been lost and desperate operations performed almost daily in the Dominion to relieve the unfortunate sufferers. He advocated the State demanding that men should submit to medical inspection to decide their fitness or otherwise before entering on niatriinonial alliaii'-es. Other sneakers endorsed Dr. Is"Mie'ir= vir—s. Mr G. M. Thomson. M.P., asked tho society to appoint a sub-committee to confer with the technical school authorities with the object of having tuition in domestic economy put on a satisfactory footing.