MENTAL DEFECTIVES.
NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATION. BRITISH APPROVAL. ;From oVr Own Correspondent., LONDON, July 27. Dr Elizabeth Sloan-Chesser, of Harley street, approves of New Zealand legislation for dealing with mental defectives. In a letter to the Morning Post she writes; — .... ... "The majority ol physicians will approve of the Mental Defectives Bill, which has been introduced into the House of Representatives of New Zealand. My experience of defective children in the schools compels me to realise the danger to the communinty of young adolescents, who are mentally defective or borderland cases propagating unsound stock and spreading, through promiscuity, disease amongst the healthy. The time is ripe to form a commission of inquiry with i the consideration of the possibility of i sterilisation by X-rays of mentally defeci tive persons who art not segregated under control, ■ Whilst a definite proportion of social defectives (criminals, etc.) are psycho--1 logical cases who would respond to treatment, there are large numbers who are mentally defective, unfit for liberty, a danger to themselves and to the rest or the community.” ! ——
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 12
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173MENTAL DEFECTIVES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 12
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