Safe Marriage

Safe Marriage

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Title: Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity
Author: Ettie A. Rout
Commentator: Sir William Arbuthnot Lane
Release Date: June 26, 2005 [EBook #16135]
Language: English
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[Illustration: ETTIE A. ROUT. [Vandyk, London.]]
SAFE MARRIAGE A RETURN TO SANITY
BY
ETTIE A. ROUT
WITH PREFACE BY
SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT LANE, BART., C.B., M.S., (Consulting Surgeon to Guy's Hospital), etc.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN (Medical Books) Ltd. 1922
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The French Government has bestowed the premier decoration for women, The Reconnaissance Fran?aise, upon Miss Ettie Rout, of the New Zealand Volunteer Sisters, "for work done during the war (as head of Anzac Soldiers' Club in Paris), and in 1919-1920 as head of American Red Cross Dep?t and Canteen at Villers-Bretonneux, where she helped a great many French soldiers, and rendered precious service to the civilian population of the commune." The War Office also conveyed thanks to Miss Rout "for gallant and distinguished services in the field." "I have it in command from the King," wrote the Secretary of State for War, on 1st March, 1919, "to record His Majesty's high appreciation of the services rendered."

PREFACE.
It affords me great pleasure to write a short preface to this book, since it deals with a matter in which I (in common with all those who are intensely interested in the health of our race) am glad to take an active part.
To no woman has it been permitted to do the same amount of good, and to save more misery and suffering, both during and after the war, than to Miss Ettie Rout. Her superhuman energy and indomitable perseverance enabled her to perform, in the most efficient manner possible, a work which few women would care to handle, and of which but an infinitesimally small number are capable. The French Government fully recognised the great services she rendered to the Allies, and did her honour. The book she has written is one of very great value, in that its object is the Health, Happiness, Morality and Well-being of the Community.
Not only has Miss Ettie Rout the qualities that characterise all great humanitarians, but she also possesses, in a unique degree, an intimate knowledge of the terrible troubles that arise from irregular intercourse, and of the manner in which they can be reduced and perhaps eliminated.
In this book she deals with such simple hygienic measures as are little known in England, though they are in common use in France and in the United States, in both of which countries sound practical common sense prevails.
She is persuaded that marriage is the goal to be reached by all, and that everything possible should be done to facilitate it, and so to diminish vice. In her efforts to bring about this happy issue she has the good wishes and congratulations of all who have the health of the community at heart.
W. ARBUTHNOT LANE. 21, Cavendish Square, London, W.1.
March 25th, 1922.

CONTENTS.
PAGE
FOREWORD xiii
I. INTRODUCTION 17
II. PRACTICAL METHODS OF PREVENTION A. FOR WOMEN 32 B. FOR MEN 51
III. MEDICAL FORMUL? 59
IV. COMPULSORY TREATMENT 63
V. CONCLUSION 65
APPENDIX I 69
APPENDIX II 73
NOTE AND ADVERTISEMENT 75

"Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the Individual withers, and the World is more and more."
TENNYSON.

FOREWORD.
This book embodies the considered opinions of twenty-five years' practical experience of adult life--as an official reporter and journalist, as a voluntary war-worker, and as a married woman. For many of the thoughts and expressions used I am indebted to large numbers of men and women whom I cannot name, and with whom I have been personally and professionally associated in different parts of the world. I am also indebted to