EUGENICS PROBLEM
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mental DEFECTIVES some astounding figures " are quoted during discussion PROPORTION OF UNFIT
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(Rec. 7 p.m.) London, October 26 The sterilisation of mental defectives continues as a matter of interest in publie debate. Professor Cyril Burt, speaking at the London School of Hygiene, flung a bombshell at the upholders of wholesale sterilisation by pointing out that in order to wipe out the unfit it would be necessary to sterilise 1 in 50 of the population. There were at least 300,000 seiious defectives in Britain but only 60,000 were traceable. The Bishop of Exeter, at Caxton Hall, also put a new aspect of the problem by arguing that if individuals were sterilised for the goo.d of the coinmunity, people mentally and bodily perfect should be encouraged, perhaps compelled, to have large families.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 673, 27 October 1933, Page 5
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137EUGENICS PROBLEM Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 673, 27 October 1933, Page 5
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