Abstract
Davenport, Iowa, Jan. 7, 1908. To the Editor: —In Dr. W. T. Belfield's recent Chicago address on the above subject, an abstract of which appeared inThe Journal, January 4, he is credited with views which, it apears to me, should not pass unchallenged by the medical profession. His advice, if generally sanctioned by reputable physicians, would tend strongly to race suicide not confined to the parasitic classes, and would leave the spread of the venereal diseases unchecked. It can not have been carefully considered byThe Journal, I think, or it would hardly have been published without comment. That it is both the right and the duty of the state to restrict the breeding of confirmed criminals and other defectives in every practicable way is not questioned; and, as I see it, castration for such would be a practicable and wise provision both for the safety of the state
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