The weekly soliphone., 1915-11-26

birth, is not tied immediately after the infant will die of loss of blood I do not mean to say that children are permitted often to die by their physicians. But such deaths are not infrequent"
 Have you ever permitted child
 to die before?"
 "No," said Dr. Haiselden, after thinking a moment, "1 can't say that I have I have had cases to which I paid little attention in the hope that nature would rectify its error.''
 And has nature corrected its mistake in these cases?"
 70, yes," replied Dr. Haiselden.
 Instead of struggling to save deformed children and those mark ed plainly for insanity and useless ness," the surgeon continued, "phy- sicians should have only the fit II have thought over this problem for years. In children's hospitals the best thinkers should be permit tied by law to pass or the advisa- bility of saving all lives born in such institutions, which would be lost except for surgery. Wise phy- sicianS should decide whether op- erations should be performed. Where babies are pitufilly lacking in qual- ifications of body and brain that make for useful and happy lives, they should be permitted to pass out of the world. Such lives should be snuffed out not only for the ben eft of the individual, but of the race.
 There are no defectives among 1 the Japanese. The surgeons of Nip pon often fail to tie the umbilical cord. AS result, the Japanese are a wonderfully vigorous race deserv- edly coming into world prominence. CHAMPIONS OF STERILIZATION. "I am an advocate of sterilization not only of infants of defective par ents, but of criminals and the in sane Infant mortality is unfortu- nately low in families of epileptics, the partially insane, and those of criminal tendencies.
 No risk of life is involved in sterilization, nor does it take from life any of it's color or zest. It sim ply prevents reproduction. I have sterilized many children who were plainly defective, with their par ents' permission. The process in- sures a reduction in the dependents and criminals in future genera tions."
 Do you approve of painless death for lunatics?" the doctor was asked.
 "In cases of hopeless insanity, yes. I should favor a law providing that the incurably insane be put out of the world by some painless meth od"
 WOULD OPERATE ON CRIMINALS Do you number criminals among the insane?"
 "They are abnormal. However, l should not advocate their being eX- ecuted, except in capital cases. l would have all criminals sterilized by law"
 "In your opinion is suicide ever justifiable?"
 Suicide is never justfiable in a healthy man. If it is ever justi- liable it is in the cases of the hope lessly ill. If I knew man had only pain and unhappiness ahead of him and that the future for him was a blank wall I should not hes itate, if allowed to do so, to give him means by which to terminate his existence.
 CITY FULL OF DETECTIVES.
 Chicago is full of detectives" Dr. Haiselden concluded. The aver age physician today saves imbe- ciles at birth. This adds to the crime waves of the citys future. There will be great awakening some day which will result in the enactment of laws providing for the sterilization of the criminal and the lunatic, and possibly for the pain less death of the hopelessly insane"
 Dr. Haiselden is graduate of the Chicago medical department of the University of Illinois. He re- sided at the German hospital for three and half years, where he was under the famous pr. Christian Fenger, considered one of the worlds greatest pathologists and surgeons He established the X-ray department at the Cook county hos pital For six years he was in structor at the Chicago Polyclinic