126 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



New York Hospitals and find the percent- 

 age of cases due directly or indirectly to 

 social diseases and yon will be astonished. 



HEEEDITAEY INSANITY FROM 

 DISEASE. 



Society owes it to itself to segregate or 

 sterilize the unfit, so they cannot produce 

 their defective kind, who must have insti- 

 tutional care and be a burden to the state. 



From an insanity expert, for many years 

 head of his state 's insane asylum, to whom 

 I submitted this manuscript, I have this 

 message : 



"Many times, I have found patients 

 whose symptoms indicated syphilitic insan- 

 ity, but whose parents, apparently, were 

 healthy. In such instances I invariably 

 have found something like the following to 

 be the case : 



" 'A.,' once syphilized, marries a healthy 

 energetic woman. Their son, *C.,' is ap- 

 parently healthy. 



" 'B.,' perfectly healthy, marries a 

 healthy, energetic woman. Their daughter, 

 *D.,' is apparently healthy. 



