DRASTIC PROPOSAL
SUBNORMAL CHILDREN CERTIFICATES FOR DESTRUCTION. (A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, April 20. A startling suggestion was made by Mrs Albert Littlejohn, member of the New South Wales Committee of the Australian Federation of Women Workers, giving evidence before the Child Endowment Commission. She declared that infants who were subnormal at birth should be destroyed on a certificate from five doctors. Medical opinion, however, regards the proposal as unlikely to gain support in any civilised country, while legal commentators consider that the public mind is not rip« to accept such a drastic change which holds great possibilities of danger.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19280423.2.34
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20128, 23 April 1928, Page 7
Word Count
98DRASTIC PROPOSAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20128, 23 April 1928, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in