“MOST UNPALATABLE FACTS”
INEFFICIENTS IN BRITISH RACE. OBJECTS OF EUGENIC MOVEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.5 p.m. London, Oct. 19. Lord Horder, inaugurating post-gradu-ate lectures at Hampstead Hospital, said that a national stocktaking produced most unpalatable facts. Britain was staggered during the war time to find that only one of every three recruits aged from 17 to 18 years was perfectly sound. Today one in every 120 was feeble-minded, one in every 200 insane and one in every ten over-dull and over-sickly to be absorbed in industry. The nation was making an enormous expenditure to educate and maintain these inefficients but this was not as serious as the fact that the future stock was being-continually recruited from them. He pointed out that the eugenic movement sought to operate voluntarily, advocating sterilisation of mental defectives, mental convalescents and sufferers from transmissable defects.
Lord Horder urged that genetics should be taught to medical students, reinforcing the doctors’ knowledge of many diseases and enabling them properly to advise those contemplating marriage. He feared many doctors were still' unable to give scientific advice on contraception.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1933, Page 7
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