ABSTRACT
IT would seem that the policy of any humane society should be concerned with the following general principles:
The need to pursue positive safety, that is, not only to prevent accidents and disease but actively to promote safety so that accidents become the exception.
If, due to the waywardness of circumstance, persons are injured or fall ill, there is the need for them to be restored to their former vigour as soon as possible, and with as little pain, worry and inconvenience as may be; nor should their incapacity to earn cause them, and their families, to be the losers financially.
If anyone is at fault, and blame can be brought home to him, it should be the responsibility of society to deal with him, by punishment, by treatment, by depriving him of the opportunity to repeat his fault.
