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THE Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation, which was appointed in 1932 to examine and report on the information available regarding the hereditary transmission and other causes of mental disorder and deficiency, to consider the value of sterilisation as a preventive measure, and to suggest what further inquiries might usefully be undertaken in this connexion, was issued on January 18. The Report is a most valuable summary of modern knowledge relating to an urgent social problem. It surveys the causes and extent of mental disabilities, considers the results of sterilisation, and makes important recommendations for a change in the law and practice in Great Britain. A survey of Dominion and foreign legislation relating to sterilisation is included, so that the Committee's own recommendations can be considered in the light of practice in other parts of the world.
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Human Biology and Legalised Sterilisation. Nature 133, 155 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133155a0
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