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RACIAL DETERIORATION LEAVES MANY UNFIT EXPERTS CONFER Reed. 10.55 a.m. LONDON. Sunday. Addressing the International Eugenic Conference at Dorset, Sir Arthur Keith said racial deterioration had set in. He was supported by Colonel G Bond, who bases his opinion on a medical examination of 2,500,000 civilians of military age in 1918, of whom only one-third were really fit. Loss of work from sickness among insured men in England and Wales accounted lor 26,500,000 weeks' unemployment in a single year. Finally the inspection of 6,000,000 school children showed 1,000,000 so physically unfit and defective that they were unable to derive reasonable benefit from education. Sterilisation, duly safeguarded and wisely applied, was the only way out of the trouble. Sir Arthur Keith said his remedy was eugenic reform.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 9
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128SLIPPING BACKWARD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 9
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