Are We a Declining Race ? 



appear through disuse. Muscular atrophy we 

 are certainly suffering from, as witness the un- 

 employable, whose ranks are increasing so fast. 



And after Mr. Kay Robinson's human being, 

 what next ? 



The sequel to that may be found in Dr. Lister's 

 address to the Saturday Hospital Fund meeting 

 at the Mansion House, April 25th, 1903. 



Of every 1,000 babies born in London, 160 do 

 not live to the age of twelve months. 



In Manchester and Liverpool it is worse, for 

 200 per 1,000 never live to that age, and in 

 Berlin the alarming figure of 268 per 1,000 is 

 reached. 



What about those who only just survive? 

 What bright prospects for the posterity of a 

 noble race ! 



Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals can scarcely 

 be built fast enough ! 



According to the Annual Report of the 

 Registrar- General, 21,039 infants under one year 

 old died in London alone in 1900 ; of these 

 1,638 did not live three months. A great per- 

 centage of women are unable to nurse their 

 children. One doctor states : " At the Hospital 

 for Sick Children, 90 per cent, of the deaths from 

 diarrhoea occur in hand-fed children." 



How long is this massacre of innocents to 

 last? 



It will last until we resolve to return to a 

 mode of life in which the just dues of posterity 

 are recognised. 



I have just been reading an article in the 

 Westminster Review for September, 1903, by H, 



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