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THY worry? The War's over!" So it is. We have all heard that remark more than "about once, but there is much to "worry We're not out of the game simply because the Huns have laid down their guns. What you gave on Heather Day and at the Fair is surely not the limit of your sacrifice! There are thousands and thousands of brave men condemned to pass the rest of their lives in misery unless we rally to the aid of the great work of healing. Thanks to the Army and Navy, we have had, and will continue to have, a very comfortable time in Hongkong. It is our duty then to "worry," in order that the maimed and sick, the human wreckage of the great war of Liberty, may be restored. Every one of us here owes a great debt to the men who fought and bled in the war-a debt which we can But we can show our appreciation by never repay. giving our last cent to the great work of mercy in which so many noble men and women are engaged at home. Money is urgently needed. Shall we grudge it now that the war is won ? Never let it be said that our patriotism and honour petered out with the echo of the last shot. Don't say that you put every cent you had into Heather Day and St. Andrew's Fair. The War Bond Draying is for the same cause, and its success must be written down in "the annals of the Colony's giving as another endeavour to show tangible appreciation of the brilliant achieve- ments, on the battlefield and on the North Sea, of the bravest boys on earth. Make the result a Victory Offering worthy of the Colony.

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RACIAL RECONSTRUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF BRITISH MAN POWER.

THE STERILIZING" DISEASES,

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BY DR. C. W. BALEKBY.] Daring the Boer War the large num bers of defective recruits caused the late Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice to draw public attention to the physical

condition of the race.. Thence followed two official inquiries, one of which, on physical training in Scotland, "caused the first entry of a doctor into the nation's schools, after, a generation of popular "education. The hypotheses that dam- aged recruits had once been younger, that dumb-bell exercise would not replace teeth long absent from their sockets, nor straighten bow-lega or knock-knees dia torted in early childhood, were verified by Dr Leslie Mackenzie's observations upon Edinburgh school-children. The origin of adults-a branch of natural history then foreign to the observational orbis of politicians became apparent to all and sundry, and there followed the medical inspection and medical treatment, such as they are, of the nation's children.

we have to sustain it. Only one Empire in history ever undertook so large a task with so little life, and Home is our

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To those who say all is well I offer. the single instances of wealthy, prosper, ous, municipal-minded Bradford, which last year had a death-rate of 14.6 and a birth-rate of 13,9, apart from its losses! at the front, and without any special epidemio cause. But that is baly specially significant instance of the general facta. Last year's birth-rate was 177, less than half the gure of forty years ago; and the infant death-rata TIPANAS rose, even though there were so faw infants to share our care. To this add | TJILIWONG the facts of the front, all death-rate but. what is damage-rate, and no birth-rate.

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I have been repeatedly accused of suppressio veri because I do not add the will riso fast and far after the war. If confident prophecy that the birth-rate

so skilful and profound a student, as Sir Bernard Mallet is dubious there anent, a he is, so am I content to be Ar to what will be I know not, but as to what is I know. And what is has no preced- ent. It is the rapid spread already, even before demobilisations, of the so- called venereal disease which I have long taught, should properly be called the racial diseases--the constant acoom- paniments of war, but never so advan taged as in this war. Our armies abroad are splendidly good; they will not like the word, but it is a good word. "It is at the beart that Empires roi," as Lord Rosebery once said. The racial diseases are spreading at home because we older: prople have almost completely lost our power to protect and direct adolescence, NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO which is everywhere falling victim to the unholy trinity of cities Mammon, Bac chus, and Priapus. Gonorrhoea · in

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But even the school-entrant, like the would-be Army-entrant, was once young er, and many are in deplorable physical condition. Hence the argument for care of the pre-school child or, as I should prefer, the home child and of the in- fant In 1902 it was my privilege to start the public campaign against the destruction of infancy, one in seven being then my alogan. But many were damaged for life, begides the one in seven killed. And, since it takes, twenty years or more to make a soldier or a sailor, wespecial is spreading amongst the young women who should be the young wives and mothers of the next few years. But

begin to understand how the nation's folly those years ago, largely secounts for the vast numbers of the unfit for ser- vice in our present need.

this disease is almost incurable in women, and nothing can compare with it as a steriliser. Those who glibly talk of COMPARATIVË POPULATIONS.

the wonderful birth-rates that are tog The infantile deaths are the first and fellow the war either know nothing of heaviest charge against live birth-rate the present spread of the two great there is a shameful still-birth rate, of sterilising diseases or they are criminal which more anon and we know that, triflers with the factors of national since 1816, according to the figures, but destiny. The foregoing statements about really since an earlier date, when registravenereal disease are not made, ner tion was less complete, our birth-rate has should they be quoted, as on my author. been falling. As the infant and general ity. They are the observed and positive death-rate have not faller comparably, common knowledge of all students of tho one has called the survival rate has subject. It is merely my privilege to delined. The stream of the national life publish them in these columns, and to

and it is by their like that rations foretell their racial significance. live is running dry. The census facts of 1911, though seemingly passable, were ominous indeed for those who looked at them dynamically instead of statically Early in the previous year I had publish- which the following is an equivalent:- ed a comparative map of Empires, of

Home Area in Population square miles.

12,000,000 1,130,000

British Empire... 45,000,000 German Empire, 70,000,000 France and Colo

4,207,000. nies 40,000,000 Japanese Empire 50,000,000 248,000

These figures were significant enough in 1910; I will not dare to say how signi feant they are to-day, until the war, of which they furnish several essentials, is won. But the reader will, of course, demand that the astonishing

Tuberculosis, the most deadly of all diseases in temperate climes, much more than sufices as one other proof of the gravity of the present facts This dis

case is not, as Lord Haldane said it was in his recent valuable speech on Lord Willoughby de Broke's Ministry of Health resolution in the House of Lords, one cause of ante-natal death Fortunately, it is not one of those agents which I bave called racial poisons," Though SOME distinguished medical authorities have included it, without examination, under that term. Ante- natal infection-miscalled heredity by the simple--is prevented in this disease by the wonderful organ which "filters" the maternal blood and so protects the future. After birth the infant may be infected, as might any other infant, but has been proved true alike for the bovine species and for ours. The point is no academic, but of the highest practical importance. If Bang, in Copenhagen, could ease calves by removing them a

between our area and home population that is another question. What I assert |

be corrected by adding the white popula tion of the Dominions. That, however. is only fifteen millions-Do you wonder why they ask and ask for the men whor we have not got making our Imperial total sixty millions, as against seventy birth from tuberculous mothers, we CRA million Germans in Germany alone. Compare these figures with the respective territories; then cbserve that, before the and will, war, Germany was adding two to her home population every year for one that

similarly save our babies-and should,

INCREASE OF TUBERCULOSIB,

But tuberele murders the already born

we added (about 900,000 to 450,000), was nothing else does. It began to in- the population of France was practically

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permanent red paint some three our last conversation at Llanwera in quarters of a million or so of square miles April, when he anxiously asked whether which I had had painted yellow, the the present rapid increase of the disease, colour of jealousy, as German in 1910 which I had mentioned, was due to the CO'S But, in exchange for these vast areas, we food factors which he controlled.

have given hosts of our finest young lives, increase now is among men, women, and and their children who should have been children. This accursed infection spreads Not for this did we, or do we, fight; more easily, of course, the more it but it has had to happen, none the less spreads. The outlook is black. Let him And to give life for territory must be who can, as I cannot, congratulate the in the long run, the most fatal, of all Board of Agriculture on its discharge of bargains. The run need not be very long its duty to see that tuberculous milk is for an almost empty Empire, with two not supplied to our children. Any bope to the square mile in Cannds, and one for improvement must rest

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infections. of us set to work, in 1913, upon the Na tional Birth-Rate Commission, little dreaming what war would have done to the birth rate and the death rate cfe. wel reported in 1916. The essence of war is the analogy between the fall of Wilhelm destruction. There is much construction, II. and the fate that overtook the power too, but almost wholly constraction for ful and ambitious Persian Kings, Xerxes destruction. Life, and the better the life

the more is, above all, destroyed.

This and Darius is interesting. Xerxes reigned

is not only true of the Seld, where all for twenty years in the fifth century B.0. and having subdued his rebellicas can see it; it is true at home; and at hame Lot only by, say, famine and Egyptian subiccts set forth against Greece with a huge force, both naval and mili- inless happier lands" than Shakespeare's, but also by the fall in the tary. Harodotus puts the number of his fighting men at something less than three live birth-rate and, in certain conditions, millions with over twelve hundred shins the rise in the still or dead-rate. This of war and three thousand smaller vessels. war, said the Registrar General, in a Xerxes land campaign was for a public lecture a few months ago, is the while triumphant and he marched on s raceuicide of Europe. These are strong deserted Athens. His Armada however words, but they are strictly true.

natel was destroved before his A recent critic has quoted the national battle, of Salamis.

eyes at the Xerxes "watched this rate of increase during the last census conflict from a high throne anticipating decade, 1901-1911, is showing that we have complete success, and, dumbfounded at Do cause for anxiety. As well say your the unexpected and overwhelming debacle. house being on fre, that it was not on fed hot foot for the Hellespont leaving fire yesterday. This quite all-British Mardonius in command of his land forces. incapacity to think as fast as the tempe which were destroyed by the Greeks on of modern events may be our national the Beld of Platoes. He was murdered a

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