Show the comments of eminent treat trat men on tho the sterilization ol of tuberculosis V i e s in in I 1 T defectives show which way early manifestations the e wind blows any at tempt to try to curry carry out by D S HAGERM D chicago ideala that are in advance of tb alic progress of the inest fail sterilization of detectives defectives may seem ideal but much advance must be mode before this could be done even if public opinion should consent to such procedure why should sterilization be practiced ced and lie cause of defectives be left untouched would this not be on a par with the idea of pouring water in a bucket to fill it while the bucket was full of holes it has been shown often that environment has much to do with civilization and until environment improves ideal conditions toward race betterment cannot obtain it has been shown that anything like alcohol tobacco and various forms of disease tend to cause degenerate traits andia and if degeneracy were standardized s t by the stigma of degeneration degen cration and especially by those stigmas which are shown by degenerate ears cars I 1 judge the task of elimination would be herculean the same is true of trying to eliminate tuberculosis if it is true as the best authority claims it is that we all have been infected with tuberculosis from drinking tubercular cows milk and that the germs are lying latent in most of us so that it requires quires ic but a slight lowering of our vitality to cause the germs genus to begin to grow just just as a smoldering fire will grow when stirred up by a gust of wind afien the modern modem treatment of tuber i fails because the recognition of the early and curable stages of tuberculosis is not an cas easy y matter even by the most emine eminent t authorities on the subject would it not be better for the state to help train medical men who do family practice to detect any slight tubercular conditions and in this alii manner to treat it in its very early manifestations rather than wait the condition has advanced far enough to cause the patient to seek medi i cal advice Is not an ounce of prevention here as in the sterilization og off defectives worth pounds of cure surely something is lacking in modern modem social soc ial life that could be and an should be taken into consideration by society if ideal conditions ditl defectives is to become a measure for state supervision |