66 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



eliminating the number of the bhnd. The 

 1913 census shows a falling off of 11.1% 

 per 100,000 from the census of 1905. 



Such afflicted people are, by nature of 

 their afiliction, thrown more or less into 

 each other's society and it is only natural 

 that marriages will occur among them, un- 

 less the state steps in and forbids it. If 

 something of this nature is not done, we will 

 increase the number of our hereditarily 

 blind and deaf. There is no question but 

 that a large percentage of cancer and con- 

 sumption cases are so by inheritance and 

 that people are bom with tendencies to can- 

 cer and consumption; and it would not be 

 wise for persons afflicted with cancer or con- 

 sumption to marry persons who had con- 

 sumption or cancer, or had it in their family 

 history. Laws should be passed to pre- 

 vent such unions. The same is true of peo- 

 ple whose family history on both sides 

 shows a tendency to Heart Disease or 

 Bright 's Disease. This doubling up and 

 doubling up of tendencies to Bright 's Dis- 

 ease has continued until today it is not an 

 uncommon thing to find children born with 



