Public morals / [James Marchant, editor].

Date:
[between 1900 and 1910]
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Credit: Public morals / [James Marchant, editor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “the man on the spot,” who was certain that in crowding the hospital with women he was preventing disease, though he sent them out little better than they went in, and disease among the men went on raging all the same. Nowhere do we find the true grip of the sci- entific mind on a scientific problem; nowhere the keen eye of the true administrator, observant of remote as well as direct causes, and shaping his measures so as to make them converge from every side towards the desired result. Every- where the one idea has blotted out all others, and defeated them and itself besides. Nor are things likely to be permanently better until the completeness of the failure is fully recognised, and the reliance on outside coercion discarded, to give place to a new departure in military hygiene, and to more general and less perfunctory efforts to raise the standard of intelligence and character in the army. I am not without hope that this new departure may have already begun. I have dealt thus minutely with Regulation in India, because the case of British troops in India is so constantly quoted as an argument for Regulation, and it was desirable to show what that argument is worth. It may perhaps be said that there are other British dependencies in which Regulation is held to be a success—or at least a necessity. But then it was also held to be a success—or at least a necessity—in India. II. The Present and the Future And now, what of the future? Are these ascertained facts making their due impression