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MAJORITY REPORT : RESERVATION. 
12. Apart from emphasising the time-honoured truth that it 
is better to prevent the existence of disease than to cure it 
when it has emerged, we do not, however, think that the time 
is appropriate even for an adumbration of the practical con- 
clusions to which these considerations might lead. The problem, 
which should not be impracticable of solution, is to devise a 
method whereby society, while guaranteeing to every individual 
the opportunity of a reasonably complete life, shall yet be able to 
protect itself against the infusion of elements calculated to be a 
source of weakness. So far from the conjoint attainment of these 
two ends being impracticable, it may be suggested that the first 
and more visionary is possible of achievement only on condition 
that the second and less popular is in some measure realised. 
We have ventured to submit these observations, not with the 
object of making concrete suggestions, but rather in order to 
discourage an easy and prevalent optimism which lightly over- 
leaps the limits of the practical and attainable, and also in the 
hope that those who are impressed by the inadequacy of our 
national efforts on the health side may be led to seek for a deeper 
cause and so prepare the way for a more fruitful discussion of 
these matters. 
(Sioned) 
ANDREW R. DUNCAN. 
ALEXANDER (GRAY.