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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934.

INSANITY'S ANNUAL

INCREASE

BENEFITS OF RECENT ACT

LARGELY NEGLECTED

The performance of the "wind- jammers" which have taken more than 100 days to sail from Eng- land to Australia would have been regarded a very poor in the Trustee, Belt Memorial Fellowships

sixties and 'seventies. Those were the great days of the Ariel, the James Baines, and many other! great sailing ships.

By SIR ALFRED BEFT, M. P.,

for Medical Research

London. We owe our civilisation to the

While the former disease has at-

tracted public attention, and is being most laudably combated, the latter is allowed to languish, ale though 'mental health and Killness are much more closely bound up

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The reason is that these ships to./Power of the human mind. Man is with the well-being of our society.

so infinitely more clever than his day are mostly manned, or rather fellow-animals that he has turned undermanned, by youths underwildernesses into cities for going training. Moreover, it is not

comfort and convenience, while possible these days to drive crews they depend upon the bounty of Select Committee. is now con-

his

The fact that mental illness, is ofteen inherited has led to much discussion, of the possiblity of sterilisation being made legal.

sidering this question."

as hard as the old "shell-backs"

nature, as their ancestors did many were driven.

thousands of years agó.

I shall make no attempt to anti- A voyage of 80 days then often

Yet as we become more and more elpate its findings. But whatever dis- mean something more than

civilised we see more of the dangers these may be, the question is likely. comfort the foulest cruelty.

that lie around us. It is almost 5 to be discussed with much heat for No doubt Mr. Percy Grainger, if some avenging fate lay in wait many years to come. It is an un- the pianist and composer, who was to trap us and drag us back to the doubted fact that many of the a passenger in one of these modern levels from which-we have sprung. neaple who should be childless. wind-jammers, found inspiration

We have lately realised with have the largest families.. for more music on the lines of his horror the daily slaughter on our At present there is not even con- "Handel in the roads: the ravages of cancer are trol over the marriage of known being fought with the whole re-defectives. In 1931, of these 166 sources of the medical profession; married, and 103 legitimate chil- I believe it possible that we shall dren were born to known defective next be awakened to the dangers parents, and 177 illegitimate chil- [from the collapse of mind itself. |dren were born to known defective

Old Abhorrence of Madness

merry hornpipe. Strand."

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mothers.

Sterilising of Defectiver

Grenfell Of Labrador "Grenfell of Labrador" is in Bri- Lain on one of his periodic visits. He

knows

the as much about troubles of Newfoundland as most men. He ascribes them largely to the failure of the fishing industry. That would be absurd. What I do indicated by these figures is enor- "They owe more in that world to suggest is that insanity is likely mous. The figures themselves omit the codfish than to the lion ramseon call for an increased many unknown and border-line pant," he says.

amount of our attention.

eases. These are merely the visible

adventurous

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Dignity And Impudence

Your Daily Smile.

Under the Influence

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Were

I do not suggest that the race an la whole is losing its mental power.

The spread of the insanity taint

In

Many

well be a be.

accordance with British traditions, low and practice are gradually ameliorating the lot of those who are Insane. Idens of re- tribution are an dead as any pre historic monster. We no

Sir Wilfred is able to fire the im

We have now had time to see points from which the disease agination of

men. how the Mental Treatment Act of grows outwards. They are always offering to help in quin has worked. The results Further, when defectives marry, This work even at their own expense.soom to indicate that its proposed (hey tend to be freed from that jearthquake. at the offer (north-1

| benefits have been largely little control under which they western) end of the Himalayas

Ineglected, partly, perbaps, from may previously have been held. Jequally violent but af smaller

false notions of To deny these unfortunate people He tells a story to illustrate this, extremely Hong Kong. Tuesday, Feb. 29, 1914. focus, killed 20,000 people. The He purchased a ketch in Britain. It economy, hat partly, also from the all opportunity of normal married unthinkable. Not was almost too small to cross the disinclination of healthy people to life would be weakness runs in one direction Atlantic, but was too big, to enrry think too much about those only would it intensify their own

Western Asia Earthquake's Majesty.roug).

into in a liner. His friends told him whose minds are unhealthy. It misery, but would certainly in- Greece and Italy. and in the he would never be able to hire sea-will require an effort completely to crease the number of illegitimate

very high. other into the volcanic zone of men to undertake the journey in it. overrome the mediaeval abhorrence births, already

of these people are only too keenly which shook the Indies and the Pacific He told them he did not so intend; (of madness. India last month was of such Tabriz, Kabol, and Calcutta have he intended to get nome adven- It is much easier to think about aware of their own conditiou, and uppalling dimensions that even been

over-turous young men to bring it across and remedy crime. The result task for sterilisation.

thai nur prizon practice has At present these requests must yet the full extent of the havoc whelmed In past centuries, like free. He succeeded.

changed out of all knowledgo be refused. Compulsory sterilisa- The catastrophe Messina and Italian towns whose "And," he said, “as they is not knowTI. was centred in India's seismic recurring disasters

|going down the Solent they had the within the last century, and aurtion would be another kettle of fish. are better danger zone, and is only another known among Europeans.

impudence to ask the captain of the prison population been reduced by it has many penal and tyrannical In of those might earth movements every country intensive study of for America!"

Berengaria if he had any messages three-quarters in the last twenty suggestions. It would obviously years. The economy both in money require such claborate safeguards constant manifesting them these catastrophic visitations are

and in happiness is obvious. Yet that we may be sure that years of selves along the Himalayan fault'absorbing

debate will be given to it before, energy of

We are told on the highest Hine. Indeed, the Himalayas them-'scientists, and a wealth of or

thority that if mental diseases if ever, it reaches the Statute Book. The storms over the question in selves have been formed by ganitation and experiment has

were eliminaled our prisons would: DEFINITION

be all but empty.

Nazi Germany may Warn ua to violent cramiding of the earth's been built up around their work.

The worst shock was of Geologists have determined that waits till his wife is ready to go emptying our prisons, however, our But sterilisation at the patient's

Home is the place where a mun While we have crust.

1 en gradually steer clear of a bitter controversy. great violence

in the north of the Himalayas themselves were out.

prisons, however, our mental hos-own request may Bihar Province and rocked all formed-er, it should rather be

pitals have gradually been filling. pelleent piece of legislation. India for eight minutes, The said, are still being formed-by

Within the last few years the num- earth in the Muzzafarpore region violent crumpling of the earth's A very hard-up actor was sud-ber of persons receiving treatment over a wide area was ruptured crust, under constant upward denly discovered to be in funds has incrased at the rate of no less

shaken. "Largo pressure, along the southern mar and his friends asked whence the than 2,000 each year, fissures appeared after the first gin of the Central Asian tuble doubloons had miraculously come. shocks, and tons of water in the land. It has been established

"Borrowed them from Jenkson," he explained, form of spouts poured out of the that the peninsula of India was

naming a Scots actor. ground, covering the whose disland while much of the Himalayas trict to a depth of five feet" was submerged beneath the pre of the crowd, "I always thought hetes are, fall very far short of in- North-west of Muzzafarpore for historic Mediterranean, which sixty miles the whole country stretched far across middle Asia.

was reckoned to be pretty tight."dicating the extent of the danger.

"So he was when I borrowed the far no little attention has been SEX NOT STRONGEST devastated and lying under In this sea, it is declared, were money," said the grinning bene-given to a statement recently made water or mud, with road and rull-laid the marine deposits found feiary.

by a high authority that "mental way bridges destroyed, and in the Himalayas.

Illness probably Tangential

accounted for houses either demolished or half pressures, set up in the earth's

more hospital beds in England and Wales than all other illnesses put submerged. Westward and south-crust, by interior pressure of Though but recently arrived in west of this centre similar de- one kind or another, caused these France, he already cherished three together." In view of such a fact

even, the dread

cancer pales into struction occurred. Shocks were deposits to be crushed against new ambitions to speak French, insignificance. felt right across India. The full the older rocks in great folds, to get acquainted with all that

Civilisation itself is one of the story of the more local damage and finally led to the whole mass country's drinks, and to create a

causes of insanity. As we become and loss of life has yet to be told. being pushed forward over the favourable impression on

London. more highly cultured we moye fur- The idea that the sex instinct is". Descriptions so far received re-edge of the part which did not blonde estaminet girl.

ther from our instincts, we have to the strongest of human motive. call those of carliér earthquakes crumble,

"What'll you have?" he asked. The picture drawn is

make "Rien, du tout," she replied.

more delicate adjustments, forces was attacked by Dr. Cyril in this region. In January, 1869, of a series of parallel faults

"Rien du tout for two," he order-We feel all kinds of nervous strain. Burt, Professor of Psychology in for instance, an earthquake in through which older rock over-ed.

With the vast majority of people, the University of London, when Assam and Upper Burma pro-whelmed deposits of ages found,

of course, this proceeds no further. he lectured to the Winter School The laughter of the old-timers Yet medical authorities assure us for Health Visitors and School duced a similar "splitting" of the beyond these faults, lying un-made him realize that something that a hereditary taint is present Nurses at Bedford College. earth by which volumes of blue disturbed--a sort of gradual en-was wrong. sand and water were thrown up:}croachment southward. by up- "What does it mean?" he in- in places the ground rose 20 feet;}heaval of the one and depression{quired. and for an hour rivers rughed of the other. "The earthquakes "Nothing at all," they told him. backward towards their sources of the present day," writes one!

"You can't persuade me to be Again, in June, 1897, the "great authority, "show that the pro-lieve that," he retorted. "It must Indian earthquake" was centred cess is still in operation, and in mean something or she wouldn't in Assam, much of the upheaval time the deposits of the present have asked for it," fortunately in wild and sparsely-jIndo-Gangetic plain will be in- populated country; but the shocks volved in the folds." It seems

"Good Heavens,” exclaimed one

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Puzzling

Facts You Did Not Know.

the

terms such as

longer "lunatia

What We Pay For Civilisation In addition there are now overleven use 2,000 persons waiting for admis-nsylum" which carry a stigma withi alon. But these figures, striking anthem.

(Continued on Page 11).

INSTINCT

Professor's Attack On Popular Statements.

HUNGER MORE VIOLENT FORCE

in the relatives of 70 per cent. of An enormous amount of harm mentally sound people.

was done, Dr. Burt said, by popular Insanity is the converse side of statements which were made to the heredity it is completely bound up violent that it was our civilisation, and thanks to effect that the sex instinct was so difficult for with our clvilisation. There is people to withstand the great every reason to think that, given temptations to which

it subjected sufficient attention, it could be per-them. fectly well kept under control. But "People who have been brought it comes as something of a shock up in a medical or blological home to pexpert persons like myself to are amazed at the nonsense which learn that medical students in this is talked about the temptations of sub-country are required to devote only sex. Actually the sex instinct is twenty hours out of their whole a comparatively weak affair in the curriculum (extending over six human race, Hunger is a much years, I believe) to the study of more vibjant instinct. mental diseases,

were felt throughout India and that the Himalayas have grown beyond in a wide radlus, from southwards in a series of stagen, the epicentral tract. It gives Small wonder that, with such A German has invented a some idea of the 'mighty under-a mammoth in unrest, an Ocmarine boat that is propelled by fins {ground disturbance to read, from casional spasm ruptures the like a fish's,

ascentific study of this occur-earth and demolishes mankind

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Little Done For Research

|'. The · sex · Instinct," continued Dr. Burt," is no more powerful

It appears that mental illness in than the acquisitive or pugnacious England, though it costs us no foss instincts, both of which it is pos

rence, that the tract, or that part and his puny works in the New tweezers for fine work are of the surface which, is vertical vicinity of the earth crust's equipped with a magnifying glass ly above the centre of the subter yielding. Where in other places on, their handle. rancan source of the movement, on this great earth crack the covered 6,000 square miles.

movement manifests, itself in dis- In charges of fire and molten rock workers among seide has been in-likely to cost more as time goes on, Reading -ihe age at which sex this central area of the diatur through volcanic vents, the up-vented by a Belgian.. bance, as at Shillong, all stone-heaval is perhaps a more, ter-

same

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receives an absolute minimum of instruction should be given Dr. medical research. I am reliably Burt said that if a child had been

work, of bridger or buildings, rible spectacle, but proceeds Using a crystal-detector, e com- informed that no parallel whatever brought up properly the correct was simply levelled flat, Eight from the

deep-seated pleje radio set is contained in new cap. be established between cancer Lime was when the child asked for İyears later, in 1905, the Kangra unease, never stilled.

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