NOT MERELY FOR RECORD
The inquiry concerning mental defectives and sexual offenders has involved a vast amount of work and study; and the report of the Inquiry Committee is in'itself a valuable document. It is, indeed, much too valuable to share the fate of most reports and be bound and forgotten in the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. Yet there is a danger that this may be the fate prepared for it. It has been largely the fate of an equally valuable report prepared by another Inquiry Committee concerning venereal disease. This latter report was presented to Parliament, and Ministerial promises were made that legislation would be introduced to give effect to the recommendations which required the authority of a statute. There has been no such legislation, and the only substitute has been a "Gazette" notification which may or may not be effective. Now that the necessity for action concerning mental defectives and sexual offenders has been disclosed in an authoritative investigation, it is the duty of Parliament to see that such action is not postponed indefinitely
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 6
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181NOT MERELY FOR RECORD Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 6
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