MENTAL DEFECTIVES
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM 'By F'ootrie Telegrnnh.- doprriffht." (Published in Tht Times.) LONDON. Jan. 21. lleplying to a letter published in the Times by eminent physicians and surgeons who drew attention to the alarming increase in mental defectives, which was mainly hereditary, and advocated legislation to prevent defectives propagating, other eminent doctors, representing the Mental Welfare Association, assert that sterilisation would not touch the problem because most of the defectives \\ot\' born of sound parents; secondly, sterilisation would produce a serious social evil especially through the victimisation of defective women and girls. They concluded thai segregation is the only remedy that will safeguard both the defectives and the coinintinil v.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 January 1926, Page 5
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114MENTAL DEFECTIVES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 January 1926, Page 5
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