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PROROGATION BY DEFECTIVES. JUDGE’S OUTSPOKEN REMARKS. (United Press Association Pv Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright > (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) , LONDON, December 2. Commenting at Leeds pn the betrayal of a half-witted girl 'by a bachelor, Judge McCardie, who, - earlier in the week, outspokenly urged a birth-control instruction to the poor class wives, trenchantly criticised the nat on*s indifference in permitting mental defectives to propagate. He-safd, “The public must have the courage to face the question of sterilisation,' instead of aflowiug a curse to continue unabated.” He mentioned a recent case before him where a menfally-defective woman was the mother of nine similar children, four of whom were daughters, already reproducing their own kind.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1931, Page 5
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114TRENCHANTLY CRITICISED Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1931, Page 5
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