ABSTRACT
My readers will hardly expect a complete discussion of Population Problems in a medical book, nor shall I attempt such discussion. From the practical and hygienic standpoints, they have been admirably treated by Alfred Grotjahn (22) in his well-known work, “The Hygiene of Human Reproduction; an Attempt at Practical Eugenics,” to which I refer inquirers. He concludes as follows:
“The ideal aim of human breeding may be formulated as a population proportionate to its resources of nature and culture, in which, with each generation, aptitudes and faculties increase and defects and morbidities diminish.
“There is a proverb:‘Where there’s a will there’s a way.’ There is a way. The way is plain—but the will to take this path to a finer future is neither general nor resolute. May it become both! and inspire, not only a small minority, but the great mass of the people, so that the slow-moving forces of legislation and administration, national and local, may place themselves at the service of a systematic hygiene of Human Reproduction.”
