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The Report on Sterilization

I. Extracts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2024

Vincent McNabb O.P.
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Blackfriars , Volume 15 , Issue 168 , March 1934 , pp. 185 - 191
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Copyright © 1934 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilization. H.M. Stationery Office; 2/-.)

References

2 Numbers in brackets refer to paragraph numbers of the Report.

3 This finding confirms the previous finding of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded. In their Report, published July 10th, 1908, they say: ‘Apart from this loose and equivocal use of the terms mental defect and heredity another great difficulty has been the absence of statistics . . . Owing to the absence of necessary statistics an absolutely conclusive reply based on facts alone cannot be given to the question whether a parent or parents who are mentally defective are much more likely to have mentally defective children than are mentally normal. persons ‘ (Report, par. 543).