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ployment, according to their capacity and strength. All the 

 conditions of life and surroundings should be regulated with 

 military exactness. All sources of debility and degeneration 

 should be removed. 



Nutrition baths, healthful surroundings, exercise, mental 

 and physical remedies to build up and restore all the energies 

 of the body, should be enforced. Rest, in the highest sense of 

 change and growth, should be favored by every means known 

 to science, and all acts and conduct should be under the con- 

 trol and guidance of others. Each man should be organized 

 into the working force of the hospital, made a producer in 

 some way, and kept in training not only for the purpose of 

 self development, but also of increasing the value and use- 

 fulness of the institution. If he shows capacity, or can do 

 more than become self supporting, the surplus thus earned 

 should be credited to him or his relatives. 



The possibilities are almost unlimited along this line. 

 Vast numbers of inebriates, if they could be restrained from 

 the use of spirits in such institutions and given medical care 

 and work in the best conditions of health, would become active 

 producers and support their famihes besides. After a long 

 period of medical and institutional care and training, such 

 cases would be restored, and in many cases become useful 

 citizens. If after repeated trials on parole they should con- 

 tinue to relapse, their commitment should be permanent. 

 The incurables would thus be placed in the least harmful and 

 most humane and economical conditions of life. The present 

 losses and contagions which follow this class would be pre- 

 vented. The crime, insanity, pauperism, and disease centers 

 which are always found associated with them would disappear. 



Hospitals must be provided for a second class of persons 

 who are not so far down the road to final dissolution. Ine- 

 briates who are constant drinkers or who have periodic ex- 

 cesses, and who keep up the delusion that they can stop any 

 time and are not so bad as their friends represent — such per- 

 sons are Uterally an army of exhausted, brain toppling drink- 

 ers, who are on the verge of insanity, crime, suicide, and sud- 

 den death. These should be committed to hospital care, the 

 same as others. The same military control of exact obedience 



