PUBLIC MORALS.
THE BIRTH OF THE UNFIT.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —IVRESS ASSOCIATION.] t Dunedin, Thursday. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children today, the president (the Rev. Canon Curzon Siggers) urged the provision of a
house of detention for girls with immoral tendencies. He also raised the question of dealing with the mentally unfit, and said while the Government made some provision for males, there was no provision for mentally defective females. He strongly urged the sterilisation of the defective. The society, he said, had very strong feelings oh. the subject of applying the curfew law, so as to keep young people off the streets at late hours, and inculcate a taste for home life. He felt that the state of morality in Dunedin was not what it should be, and unfortunately Dunedin was no worse than other places. He hoped the Government would appoint a commission to inquire into and provide means for checking the birth of 'the unfit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14690, 26 May 1911, Page 7
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