Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — Marriage and Health. [ARTICLE]

Marriage and Health.

It has been proved beyond all peradventure that married people suffer less from sickness—have fewer diseases and live longer lives than the unmarried ; this is true of both When cholera rages it takes away more single than married people, and so of all contagions. Professor Richard A. Proctor while admitting these facts warns sickly people against marriage. He says they have no right to burden wholesome partners with invalid companions for life, nor should they run the risk of bringing children into the world," that may inherit their chronic ailments. The greater mortality of the single may be due to the fact that invalids of both sexes often abstain from marriage. The question has been raised whether any one should be permitted to marry without a doctor’s permit. Certainly it is a mockery of a divine ordinance', for clergymen to unite persons who cannot be true companions, -and who are unsettled to each other by difference of age or an inherited tendency to insanity or disease. Demorest’s Monthly.