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2d. To society it brings, —
(a) Greater burdens, inasmuch as it lays on its mem
bers extra care and labor, — in the strict sense unremunerative.
(b) Lessened production, present and prospective :
1. By the loss of as much as the disabled
laborer would have produced.
2. By the loss of the natural increase of that
which would have been produced.
3. By the loss of the production of those re
quired to care for the sick, and its natural increase.
4. By the incapacity to bear a proportionate
part, by maternity, in keeping good the strength of the race; or by the expense, loss, and burden involved in the production of non-vigorous and non-productive offspring.*
(c) Loss to the general tone and work of society.
of the Minnesota Insane Hospital, in analyzing three hundred and sixteen cases of insanity, whose causes he gives, attributes sixty-two, or about twenty per cent, to causes directly connected with uterine disorder. Dr. Eastman of the Worcester (Mass.) asylum, in a review of a hundred and twenty-nine cases, attributes sixteen, or about twelve per cent, to similar causes.
* Says Gail Hamilton, in “Woman’s Wrongs,” “To give life to a sentient being without being able to make pro-
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