Sterilising the Mentally Unfit
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES AT HOME
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 26. Sterilisation of mental defectives continues a matter of intensive public debate. Professor Cyril Burt, speaking at the London School of Hygiene, flung a bombshell to uphoders of wholesale steriliastion by pointing out that in order to wipe out evil, it would be necessary to sterilise one in every fifty of the population. There were at least 300,000 serious defectives in Britain, but only GO,OOO were traceable. The Bishop of Exeter, at Caxton Hall, also put a new aspect on the problem, arguing that if individuals were sterilised for the benefit of. the community, people who were mentally and bodily perfect should be encouraged, perhaps compelled, to have large families.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7298, 27 October 1933, Page 6
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