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Show DR. CALDER IN A TALK ON THE INSANE Declaring that the restless spirit of the age, with Its Intense competition and th4 increasing mental tension required re-quired io meet conditions, is reVon" slble for neurotic conditions bordering cn insnnit Dr. D, H Calder. in his address before the members of tho First District Medical society last nleht. sounded a warning that the peo pie of this country are In danger of becoming a race of insane. Dr. Calder. who Is superintendent of the Stale Mental hospital al Pro vo, delivered his paper at the closj of the day'e sessions. At the afternoon session al the Weber We-ber club. Dr. G. G Richards of Salt l-ake. sun Dr G V. Stateb of Preston, Pres-ton, Idaho, read papers Following the papers a clink was lu-ld at the I'ee hospital after which the doctors returned to the club for a banquet. There were 75 physicians from northern Utah and southern Idaho preseni Dr. H A Adam&on of Richmond. Utah, was elected president of the society, and Dr C K. MacMurdy of Ogden was chosen secretary treasurer lor the ensuing ear. in his Introduction, Dr c.iiii-r told his audience at Ihe City hall that it has been computed that In tb- I "nit. ,1 , States on in every 300 is Insane, : while in Utah only on- in each Km i is Insane Of the members admitted I I to menial hospitals, he said that about 25 per cent recover, and an equal nutn-berecover nutn-berecover sufficiently to tak- care of tnemselves The remainder are charges of the state, or die "Alienists know- that mental bp r down is not caused by some single circumstance, but by a multitude ol ' buses conspiring together." said Dr Calder. "Fright, which is popularly supposed to be a Luge factor, von rarely causes insanity AlthourS there is no doubt that ins;mit g more prevalent in this decad" than in any oiher, the mule cases predominate Syphiiiis, typhoid fever alcohol and cigarettes all produce a special form of Insanity of their own. "The line of denicrcatlon between Insanity and sanity, as frequently see-In see-In public life, is often difficult to de- j termine. This type of Individual Is j called peculiar and looked upon as foolish They are not Insane yet th?y are not entirely right The practical test of insanity is not altogether what I a man thinks, but what he does. In , actual Insanity there must be dlsor dered thought. According to the most widely accepted views of the present day, the cause of all typical insanity is the possession by th" Insane oik-of oik-of on unstable brain which is eal affected b direct action of moral and physical causes upon the brain fells and nerve fibres Jubi how euch cau ses produce their direct action Is vet to be explained. "Alcohol is variously estimated n the direct cause of insanity m from 12 to 20 per cent of .ill cases committed com-mitted to Institutions. When we con- ' older that about one third ol alco-! hollc parents Buffer from epilepsy, and that more than one-half of the idiotic children have alcoholic parents, it readily seen that this Is a factor to i be preeminently reckoned with. "It is tho very genenl belief that nearly every case of Insanity depends in some way upon nervous inherl-1 lance and that all forms of I nan ii I i are equally daugerous as far as their' transmission Is concerned. There is no ik-flnile disease Insanity, which is likely to be transmitted Insanity of the parent is not more likely to be transmitted to the descendant than an accidental Injury Though Insanity. In a definite form, is not traiisniltable. ihre is a tendency to develop various forum of psychoneuro sos. which is transmitted. "There never has been, nor never Witt be a case where a normal child was born from parents both of whom were mentally defective Ignorance on the matter of scxualit la the chief obstacle in our path at present. It Is the height of absurdity for the law to permit persons incapable or tailing tail-ing care of themselves to become th.-parents th.-parents of children who in all prob ability will be still less capable of bearing the burdens of life nmen are at last awakening to the conclusion conclu-sion that Ignorance on these subjeiis does not necessarily mean safety to girl. The supreme court of the Tint ted States has said that parenthood laws are not unconstitutional The great danger lies In the huge mass of I semi-Insane and high grade imbeciles! which a federal act would reach. "Marriage laws of the arlous states liave proved to be worse than useless Mankind has no right, moral, legal or P spiritual, to deny these semi-insane -and high grade imbeciles the hlessind b of sterilization. Probably the cause , of the failure of our attempt to create tl a state bureau of eugenics in this b state was due more than anything e6e tl to the mistake made In making sterl- lf (ifirin commit?;1? p-wk-i, ? betier way would be to have a parenthood par-enthood law Instead of a sterlll-R Hon law I would have thia law for bid compulsory sterilization, but to those of tho unfit ubo can b.- salei' at large 1 uould offer the alternative of oriliTiHnn end l(horf. r Hon without sterilization So soon as ;!" -'iiial public recogiiij the ttal necessitj of denying parenthood to the unfit, there- would be no battle about the methods The one essential essen-tial is to convince the public thn'. """dlt-rv defect ivenes Is our moo awful social burden and can In a larg measure be prevented i.-Tn? ritlpBS sPirlt of the age. wirh its Intend tompetition In everv de partment of business and profession;,! life ihe mad struggle for wealth, plac-rr""'r plac-rr""'r wUh " 'r IncreaHne -hich arc WVl:nT present generation That th12 h, ening force wlu JojJ J f ture generations l8 a , t300'' g Cu' I Amoncr women with I idem with a more dellcnte 'Cognition ' ;. ancf s "", IO) wmit " , of l,v",i; re-1 1L |