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158 Brieux
The doctor, who is not only a sincere scientist
but also a humanitarian, realizes that as things
are to-day no one is exempt from the possibility
of contracting an infection; that those who are
responsible for the spread of the disease are they
who constantly excuse themselves with the inane
"
I did not know," as if ignorance were not the
crime of all crimes. The doctor demonstrates to
M. Loche a number of cases under his observation,
all of them the result of ignorance and of poverty.
There is, for instance, the woman whose hus
band died of the disease. He "
didn t know "
;
so he infected her. She, on the other hand, is
poor and cannot afford the treatment she needs.
A private physician is beyond her means, and she
has too much pride to stand the indignities heaped
upon the poor who are at the mercy of dispensaries
and charity. Therefore she neglects her disease
and perhaps is unconsciously instrumental in in
fecting others.
Then there is the man whose young son has con
tracted the disease. His father
"
didn t know,"
and therefore he did not inform his son, as a re
sult of which the boy became half paralyzed.
Man. We are small trades-people; we have regularly
bled ourselves in order to send him to college, and
now I only wish the same thing mayn t happen to
others. It was at the very college gates that my poor
boy was got hold of by one of these women. Is it right,
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