"A born writer, especially a born story-teller. Dr. Sutherland, who is distinguished in medicine, is an amateur in the sense that he only writes when he has nothing better to do. But when he does, it could hardly be done better." G.K. Chesterton.
This document was rediscovered in a suitcase in a cellar in December 2013. Dr. Sutherland received permission to visit the Magdalene Laundry in Galway on condition that any account he wrote be vetted by the Mother Superior of the laundry. This scan shows the parts that were censored.
© Mark Sutherland 2014.
Links to Dr Sutherland’s work can be found in the following sources:
A scan of Consumption: Its Causes and Cure, a speech which signalled his opposition to Eugenics as an ideology preventing the elimination of tuberculosis can is available on request.
© Mark Sutherland 2014.
At the beginning of the Twentieth Century there was great public concern at a dramatic decline in the birth rate. This concern preceded the Great War which made the problem more acute. The National Birth Rate Commission sought answers to the challenges it presented. The second report of the Commission Problems of Population and Parenthood is available online here.
Copies of The Eugenics Review can be read here (the editions relating to the early 20th Century are at the bottom of the page).