and the numbers of the population maintained in greater
proportion from the mentally deficient or criminal classes, the result
must be national disaster. For in a very short time there will not be
enough leaders of real capacity to occupy positions of initiative and
responsibility in the various activities of the country at home and
abroad, nor will there be an adequate supply of good practical work: a
lowered standard of efficiency must result. From a national point of
view, therefore, we regard the propaganda in favour of conception
control to be a real and increasing danger.

The problem of the mentally deficient is of another order. In this
case another kind of control is urgently needed, but it is one which
can only be undertaken by the State, and not by the individual. It is
to put in force such a method of compulsory segregation as would
ensure the comfort and contentment of the mentally deficient, and
safeguard them and the nation from the reproduction of their kind.

The problem also of the insane and criminal classes in relation to
heredity is one which demands careful consideration by those competent
to give it.

SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS

1. There are certain women who for medical reasons should be prevented
from bearing children.

2. There are couples with undesirable inheritance who rightly decline
to bear children.

3. There are many women of the poorer classes in whom child-bearing is
sometimes the last straw in circumstances all of which tend to destroy
health and vitality.

4. Public teaching on contraceptives, like medical advice advertised
in newspapers, is generally applied to cases for which it is
unsuitable and applied in the wrong way.

It is therefore detrimental to public health as well as being
detrimental to public morality.

5. A public opinion in favour of small spaced families does not serve
the best interests of the children or of their mother.

6. Married love should express itself at once in the usual way without
the use of artificial contraceptives.

7. The diminishing fertility of the more capable classes is a national
peril.

To counteract this tendency every encouragement should be given to the
intelligent and efficient classes of the community to bear healthy
children.

The study of problems which give rise periodically to a propaganda in
favour of the practice of conception control reveal the fact that
excessive child-bearing is found in those classes who s