tinder American control, and modem mothods of preven- 

 tion, "Month by month I got the reportQ which form the 

 meat interesting sanitary reading of the present day. Of 

 more than fift^'-four thousand employes the death rate per. 

 thousand for the montli of March was less than 9 per cent, 

 a lower per cent than in any city of the United Kingdom. 

 All this has been brouglit about- in great part by researches 

 into the history of the parasites which produce malaria, 

 and by the effective measures taken for their destruction. 

 These splendid results in. the art of healing will be acknowl- 

 edged by all. But, it may be said that health is not the 

 highest thing in life. To this I reply that health is the 

 physical foundation of the highest qualities, whether in the 

 life of the individual, the family, the state or the race. It' 

 ha® been noticed, and marked, that, the sane mind is 

 more likely to be found in a sound body. A healthy body 

 is the soil in which to grow the finest crop of intellectual, 

 moral and spiritual activity. Not always, I know, do- 

 health and good morals gO' together. But, while this is 

 true, the fact remains that well-balanced thinking, and 

 stable morals flourish best in the good ground of steady 

 nerves. A wise man will not trust either his Judgment or 

 his temper when suffering from ner^"ousi depression, or 

 wallowing in a quagmire of biliousness. The same is true 

 of criminals. I believe it has been eetablished that the. 

 majority of them arc physically defective. "A eick man," 

 said Dr. Johnson, with hie usual over-emphasis, "is always 

 a criminal." We need, therefore, the modern science not 

 only for brawn and brain, but also for moral and spiritual 

 insight and hei\>iem. 



And this leads me to notice our new attitude to what 

 we call the criminal claes. It is an attitude of discrimina- 

 tion and iutelligent sympathy. In its present form it haid 

 its origin in John Howard, the inspired prison reformer, 

 who visited all the prisons of Europe that he miglit dis- 

 cover and expose the foolish, cruel and ineffectual treat- 

 ment of the imprisoned. If this new attitude has not 



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