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322 The Century of the Child
tious belief of the majority of people in God*s
Providence perhaps will cause the same man
to regard with complete apathy conditions
by which millions and millions of children are
yearly sacrificed. Doctors know that the de-
struction caused by bacteria is insignificant,
as compared with pauperism as a cause of dis-
ease. Mothers who have over-exerted them-
selves, drunken fathers, bad dwellings, like
those where the poor dry out newly built houses
for the rich, induced by the low rate of rents,
insufficient nourishment, inherited diseases, es-
pecially syphilis, too early work,—all this
shows its result in the emaciated, shrivelled,
ulcerated bodies of children who occasionally
are cured of their momentary disease in hospi-
tals, but cannot be freed from the results of
the conditions of fife under which they were
born and brought up. The efforts of doctors
will be in vain while they, like the other fac-
tors in society, do not devote their whole energy
to avoiding diseases, instead of healing them.
What they can now do in the way of preven-
tion is but a palliative in comparison with the
incurable evil which flourishes in abundance.
The situation will remain as it is so long as hy-
giene does not receive the same attention in
society as the soul. This solicitude may take
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