MENTAL DEFECTIONS
' QUESTION OF STERILISATION. ;; i United Free* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 26. The question of the sterilisation of mental defectives continues to be a matter of intensive public debate. Professor Cyril Burt, speaking at the Londom School of Hygiene, ■ * ha ,s flung a bombshell at the upholders of wholesale sterilisation. iHe has ed out '.hat in order to wipe out the evil aimed at, it would be necessary to sterilise one-fifth of the population of the country. TE® r ' e were at .least three hundred thousand. serious defectives in Britain, but only sixty thousand of these were traceable. ... ;Vs .., • „ The Bishop of Exeter, speaking at Oaxton Hall,, also put a new aspect ,on the problem. He argued that if individuals were to be sterilised for the benefit of the community, those • people who were mentally .fjrJd bodily perfect should be encouraged, and perhaps compelled, •to have large families.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1933, Page 4
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150MENTAL DEFECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1933, Page 4
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