The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1909-01-22
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THE OP PRU VIBURNIAN
THE SOCIAL EVIL"
BY e. D. Morrison, M. D
Do the children. go free?

DO the children go free?
Not q few! The hundreds and
thousands who die before they see
the day to which they have an i'm
mortal birthright, reach happier
home by short cut which they have
the opportunity neither to court nor
to refuse. Not however, the illcgiti-
mate 20 out OF every 1000 children
born In this America. These can
hardly be said TO escape the penalty
of the social evil even though thei"
bodies. perchancc, remain healthy
and clean: their fatherless anc
motherless future IL q curse beside
which vcnereal infection would RAM;
blessing, IL IL included kind home.
Even the blindness which stocks our
asylums with from 10 to- 20 per cent.
of all their inmates as the result OF
venereal disease, would be less har-
rowing were It only innocent i'm orr
gin. Does IL cause surprise to learn
that the records of the past 20 weeks
include 27 certificates Of death from
one congenital venereal disease, only
four weeks out of the twenty yield
ing no reported cases. This recital
Is OF itself q sufficient commentary
on the prevalence OF venereal disease.
and primarily OF the social evil.
Each instance implies the same
diseage In father or mother, and shall
| ask you to compare with this
mcager total the actual number that
tinust have been reported as dying
from Marasmus and other misnomers,
but which should rightfully be at
tributed to the social evilc In France
these figures are kept and given to
the people as they will be here, and
the infant death rate In France from
venereal disease numbers over 35,-
c00 IN year. The knowledge of these
figures would, one might think, deter
~ least the physician from engaging
IL the social evil.
Does the motehr pay for the social
evil,
IN thinh Ii the decision were left
b the women the men must need de-
rcnd on nature to satisfy her own
demands. She is amplyable and never
intended that her task should be
delegated to any other than the wife
and the mother. No physician exists
today who dares gainsay this asser
tion I'm the face OF the consensus ol
the international conference of the
SLuuentS OF tHe NeueTSdi uIScuSe
(BrusseD. Had this congress come
To any other conclusion, n physi
clans own experience and heart
would give II the lie. and yet the
teachings on this point have beer
either non-eyistent or unqualihedl!
bad until recent years, as n conse
quence there has been two standards
oi morals. one of enforced chastity
for the woman, and one for the indul
gence for the man who has avoided
the title of adulterer and prostitute
only because the physician has allow
ed him to pretend he was satisfy
ing at the woman's expense an i'm
perative demand OF nature. Ther'
are those who, whether through ie
norance or even more culpable care
Iessness. still hold this ground. Onl.
n few weeks ago n boy of the typ
from which men are made, receive'
such advice from man I'm the tow
i'm which he was at boarding school
lie came to me to learn II II wer
necessary to his health to do wha
his senses told him was crime.
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