BIRTH CONTROL.
EMINENT ALIENIST’S VIEW'S
CHILDLESS WOMEN MORE PRiONE TO INSANITY.
London, November lfi
“I know I am dropping a bomb,” said Sir Robert Alrmstrong Jones, an expert in mental diseases and the Lord Chancellor’s Visitor in Lunacy, when challenging'the arguments advanced by Mr. Harold Cox, editor of the Edinburgh Review, urging wider facilities for birth control among the lower classes and the voluntary sterilisation of the unfit.
“If you are going to sterilise Mental deficients, why not criminals, drunkards . and political apostates?” he asked. Mr. Cox’s remarks were made at a, lecture over which sir Robert Armstrong Jones presided. Sir Robert maintained that large families were the greatest help, members assisting one another. He doubted if there had been any increase in mental deficiency, which had simply been made more apparent by more careful diagnosis. Moreover, mental deficiency was not bound to be inherited.
His practice showed that absence of children caused neulrasthenia in married women, leading to insanity. Tf bulb control were instituted on a large scale, there would be need for more lunatic asylums for women.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40025, 19 November 1929, Page 3
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179BIRTH CONTROL. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40025, 19 November 1929, Page 3
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