Sterilisation of Mental Defectives
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Uear Sir, In your Summer issue you invited correspondence "on this highly controversial subject." As basic issues may vary in different geographical locations in so vast a country as the United States, I submit the following as from the area known here as our "far-West." Your questions are answered in accordance with my experience as Superintendent and Medical Director of a State Institution for Mental Defectives in California, accommodating over 3,000 patients where, under my supervision, during the years 1918 through 1949, over 5,000 patients were sterilised. Approximately the first 1,000 of this number were operated on by myself, personally. We have found that the vast majority of both males and females should be sterilised before marriage because of their incapacity to care for children either defective or normal.
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