STERILISATION LAW

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1933, Page 5

STERILISATION LAW

classes affected ix Germany. MEASURE IX FORCE NEXT YEAR. (Dnited Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BERLIN, October 23, The Nazi sterilisation law becomes operative on January 1, It applies to sufferers from chronic alcholism, those who are feeble minded, sufferers from insanity, from epilepsy, also from Saint Vitus dance, or blindness, or dumbness, or deformity. .It will be enforceable where others apply Tor the sterilisation of mental irrespo-nsibles. Doctor Lenz, a Professor of Eugenics in Berlin, extolled Herr Hitler as a teetotaller and a non-smoker. He added : The banning of drink and tobacco would greatly increase public health anil efficiency. All temperance societies would be amalgamated under | the Minister of the Interior. STERILISATION OF THE UNFIT. ' ADVOCATED BY BISHOP BARNES. LONDON, October 22. Bishop Barnes at Liverpool Cathedral advocated sterilisation of the unfit. He said ; “Blind humanitarda n ism is not Christian or sensible. Defectives .and degenerates, formerly eliminated in the hard struggle for existence, ere at present preserved and allowed to propagate at great .cost .to the community. Christ’steaching is free, of any hint of indulgent good nature, wherefore we ought -to accept a measure of eugenics. England cannot permanently .the burden of the “social problem class.” She is .riddled with mental defectives, comprising one-tenth of the community.”