MENTAL DISEASE
STERILISATION DISCUSSED liV 1)K. T. (I. CRAY (I'ItESH ASSOCIATION NAPIER, March (i. A paper on the sterilisation of mental defectives was read at the Hospitals Conference to-day by Dr. T. G. Gray, Director-General of Mental Hospitals. Dr. Gray distinguished between mental disorder and mental deficiency and said that in the case of the "former he would oppose any generalised proposal for sterilisation, or even for the prohibition of marriage. In cases of mental deficiency he did not think sterilisation would be of great benefit to the community as a whole, though he was of the opinion that there were many cases where it would be a benefit to the individual concerned. After a brief discussion the following amendment, by Mr J. K. Hornblow, of Wellington, was carried:— "That the matter be referred to the executive, to confer with representatives of the Health Department and the Mental Hospital Department, with a view to further public opinion in favour of voluntary sterilisation for certain types of mental defectives."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19350307.2.150
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21416, 7 March 1935, Page 19
Word count
Tapeke kupu
168MENTAL DISEASE Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21416, 7 March 1935, Page 19
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in