PROBLEM OF UNFIT.
♦ SEGREGATION AS REMEDY. NEW ZEALAND PROPOSAL. LONDON, June 13. Major-General Sir Donald McGavin, director-general of the New Zealand medical services, in the course of an interview, said he considered that the New Zealand proposal to segregate mental defectives had a good chance: of bein'* passed bv Parliament. Sir Donald added that the importance of maintaining good stocky was widely recognised in New Zeaiand, whole public opinion agrees that defectives should be prevented fironi. breeding. The best scheme of segregation was in establishing self-supporting farm colonies. Experts' considered that this was better than sterilisation. . “New Zealand realises,” Sir Donald concluded, “that unchecked breeding by defectives cannot be tolerated indefinitely.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 July 1925, Page 11
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111PROBLEM OF UNFIT. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 July 1925, Page 11
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