Against Use Of ‘Mongol’
(N.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS, April 30. A move to discourage the use of the term “Mongol child” was defeated at the Dominion conference on the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society in Hastings today. The Hastings branch sought to have the term deleted from official, general and medical usage and replaced by the term “Downes Child” which, being associated with Downes Syndrome, was less likely to give offence or to be misleading. The head of the genetic department of the Otago Medical School, Mr A. M. O. Veale, said the move would achieve nothing. There was already a trend in medical literature for the Mongol term to be superseded by Downes Syndrome, “but we can’t change custom and usage by edict.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 2
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