BIRTH-RATE RATIO
UPPER & LOWER CLASSES WARNING BY A DOCTOR An address was delivered at the annual meeting of the Sunlight League, Christchurch, by Dr. F. Montgomery spencer, of Wellington, who stressed the need for definite action to arrest the deterioration of the British race. Dr. Spencer said New Zealand had more than 7C03 inmates of mental hospitals and some of the patients were given their freedom after they had undergone treatment for a time. The present position was that the birth-rate was lowest among upper classes and was highest among the lower classes. They had t-o ask themselves what should be done to stop racial deterioration. All persons of sound stock should bo encouraged to have children and persons of unsound stock should be discouraged, but with persons in the lowest strata other measures would have to be employed. It might be argued that segregation or sterilisation, in the case of the unfit, would lx? cruelty, but in reality it wns_ kindness. i lie Mayor, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., described the address as “very bold and very challenging.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 8
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179BIRTH-RATE RATIO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 8
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