46 TUBERCULOSIS, ETC. 



proportion of tuberculous members — occasionally the 

 tuberculous man is a brilliant member of our race — but 

 the bulk of the tuberculous belong to stocks which we 

 want ab initio to discourage. Everything which tends 

 to check the multiplication of the unfit, to emphasize the 

 fertility of the physically and mentally healthy, will pro 

 tanto aid Nature's method of reducing the phthisical 

 death-rate. That is what the Eugenist proclaims as 

 the ' better thing to do ', and ;^i,5oo,ooo spent in 

 encouraging healthy parentage would do more than the 

 establishment of a sanatorium in every township. 



