MATTER FOR DEBATE
STERILISATION OF UNFIT
NEW ASPECTS OF! PROBLEM
LONDON, October 26. The sterilisation of mental defectives continues to be a matter of intensive public debate. Professor Cyril Burt, speaking at tho London School of Hygiene, flung a bombshell at upholders of wholesale sterilisation by pointing out that in order to wipe out the evil it would be nocessaryto sterilise oneflfth of the population. ' There are at least 300,000 serious defectives in Britain, but ontv 60,000 are traceable. . The Bishop of Exeter,' at Caxton Hall, also put a new aspoct of tho problem, arguing that if individuals were steiiHscd for tho benefit of the community, people mentally and bodily perfect should bo encouraged; perhaps even compelled, to have largo families.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19331027.2.57
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121MATTER FOR DEBATE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. 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.
Log in