THE FREE KILLING OF INFANTS BY THEIR MOTHERS.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to the letter of "Medical Inspector" in the Spectator of July 16th, may I suggest that habitual criminals should be classed as morally defective, and as unfit to have children as are the feeble-minded P Lately I have, in twelve visits, seen eighty-nine women in prison, and these women the mothers of not less than a hundred and fifty children (there were really more children, but I failed to obtain exact numbers of some). Of these women, fifty-two were habitual criminals, and had been in prison from three to thirty-five times. There must be many similar cases known to the other visitors. Why should not these persons be isolated and the criminal popula- tion reduced? I wish sincerely that your suggestion about legislation on these matters—apart from politics—could be carried out. —I am, Sir, &c., A PRISON VISITOR OF ELEVEN YEARS' STANDING.
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