Show CRIPPLES FORM NEW NEV AUTO CLUB Difficult to Find Physical Disability to Bar Driving ing A disabled drivers motor club Is the latest development In Eng Eng- England Eng Eng- England England land says the Literary st In the course of ot recent ofa a recent fetter to the Times rimes London Its chair chair- chairman chairman chairman man B H 11 Austin pointed out the difficulty of ot finding a defini defini- definition definition tion or of o physical disability such luch u as would debar a person from the rl right ht to drive a car Some years ago he underwent amputation Uon ot of both his legs but he has covered an average of or miles a year ear In his car and of- of offered of offered to drive a magistrate who appeared to believe In to physical teats testa for motorists either through the city at midday or at aL any speed he be liked at the race race- racetrack racetrack track tra k Says San the ih Medical Journal London In a discussion ot of the matter Austin drives his hb cars urs In the ordinary way IJ by mean of ot his ar- ar artificial ar artificial limbs The members of his drivers cub club are re most mOlt mostly mostly ly Iy deficient In one or two limbs Blindness is probably th the only de- de detect detect de detect which can be slid said certainly to be a a bar to motor driving Deafness need not Incapacitate nice the deaf can train their eyes ees to greater perfection than lLan the or- or ordinary ordinary or ordinary man attains Defect Detect In limbs either cither from amputation or paralysis does not necessarily dis- dis disqualify dis disqualify qualify as Austin ha h baa shown There remain for tor consideration c certain diseases or conditions such as heart disease disc se epilepsy y a apoplexy alcoholism neurasthenia neurasthenia nia which In to police courts ap- ap ap appears pears pearl to have some ome affinity to alcohol Instantly and old age None one of ot these conditions seems to be sufficiently amenable both to diagnosis and prognosis tomake to tomake tomake make systematic examination drivers or of motor Justifiable It u It may be agreed that a a man with aortic disease or angina pe pee pee- pec tons an epileptic an insane person person per- per peron who has son on and perhaps a man not noL to drive had bad a a stroke ought motor cars care But the number of to doso do doso doso such uch persona person who attempt so roust must be small and the number num num- number number ber of ot such persons persona who become involved In aWl s And though heart disease or the paralysis following a stroke are detectable how Is th the epileptic epileptic tic or the madman to Le made to r himself away A As for tor the al alcoholic al- al alcoholic the coholic the neurasthenic and would care aged few tow medical men to fix limits In these theae conditions be within ln which driving might considered safe TO BAR AGED It If a IL man of ot eighty Is to be barred because of ot his age aoe trotting from trotting log Into the neighboring village mago in his bis hi light car why not make searching Inquiries about have havo happened the man who may on some ome occasion to go 10 to sleep at the wheel It would v probably probably probably ably be bo useful It if the m medical pro pro- profession pro teulon told the public that In certain circum circumstances stances a man roan should hould retrain refrain al altogether al- al altogether together from driving motor cara car Such circumstances circumstance might Include liability to an angina lna pectoris to epilepsy epi- epi epilepsy epi lepsy and a previous attack or of apoplexy With such auch Information sufficiently disseminated any ony cut BUt ferer from one ot of th condl condi conditions tlona who o caused an accident bo properly dealt with could BLAME DLE DL E SeLl SEU OXLY As A for tor the alcoholic and the neurasthenia the medical alon aion lon may prefer to 1 leav cave 11 the tate fate ot of those these persons to th the wisdom ot of Individual police pollee court tra a It a man can ca not nize that h he 1 III too drunk or too nel nervy nenY 0 o drive ves ho be h h bee i hImself to blame for tor his hie Lack tack of o qt judg Judg- Judgment judgment ment ment |