EPILEPTIC'S CRIME
A JUDGE'S COMMENT. Proea Association—3y Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 15. Mr Justice Roche, in sentencing Charles Seymour, aged 27, who is an epileptic, to three years’ servitude, for stabbing a woman in Hyde Park, said that he was sorry for all" epileptics. Seymour could not be admitted to an asylum, but ho would be treated according to the state of his health. His Lordship said -he thought that the medical profession would perform a. public service if it earnestly studied the feasibility of sterilising both men and women epileptics, instead of allowing them to propagate disease and crime.—A. and N.Z. Cable-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18687, 17 October 1922, Page 5
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