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The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 9 The members of the Eugenics Board have considered each case presented individually, proceeding cautiously in order to establish a sound basis in policy and procedure for the sterilization program in North Carolina. It is believed that the heads of institutions and the superintendents of public welfare who have presented petitions for sterilization and the physicians who have made examinations and recommendations have given these cases thorough consideration. The magnitude of the problems of feeble-mindedness and mental disease in the State indicates, however, that sterilization must be done on a much larger scale if the program is to become effective. On December 31, 1939 North Carolina ranked fifth among the states with regard to the total number of sterilization operations performed, but with regard to the number of sterilizations performed per 100,000 population North Carolina ranked seventeenth. Under statutory provisions Delaware had 245 sterilizations per 100,000 population; California, 242; while North Carolina had only 28 sterilizations per 100,000 population. The complete list may be seen in this report on page 13. Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, with Particular Attention to a Folloiv-Up Study of Non-Institutional Cases in North Carolina, April 5, 1933 to January 1, 1939 was recently completed as a thesis for a master’s degree at the University of North Carolina by Miss Eleanor Welborn. Some of the principal conclusions of Miss Welborn’s comparative study are as follows: “1. Thirty and five-tenths percent of the sterilized patients in North Carolina who were single prior to sterilization married subsequent to sterilization as compared with 11.6% of the single patients in South Dakota and 28.3% of the single patients in Minnesota. California’s statistics on this subject were not in comparable form. These figures indicate that North Carolina has a higher proportion of patients, single at the time of their sterilization who have married following the operation. The marriage rate of single males was much lower in all the above-named states than the marriage rate of the single females. “2. Forty-three and nine-tenths per cent of the North Carolina patients thought that they were better off for having been sterilized as compared with 53.2% of the patients in South Dakota and 22% of the patients in California; 14.8% of the patients in North Carolina were dissatisfied with the results of
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-08: Biennial Report of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina [1934-1966] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina [1934-1966] |
Subject Topical | Eugenics -- North Carolina.; Involuntary sterilization -- North Carolina -- Statistics. |
Subject Topical Other | Eugenics -- North Carolina.; Sterilization -- North Carolina. |
Description | Began with the 1st report (1934-1936) |
Creator | North Carolina. Eugenics Board. |
Publisher | [Raleigh]: N.C. Eugenics Board, 1936-. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1938-1940 |
Identifier | NCHH-08-003 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 3 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-08 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2458531 |
Revision History | done |
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Fixed Title * | Page 9 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina [1934-1966] |
Subject Topical | Eugenics -- North Carolina.; Involuntary sterilization -- North Carolina -- Statistics. |
Subject Topical Other | Eugenics -- North Carolina.; Sterilization -- North Carolina. |
Description | Began with the 1st report (1934-1936) |
Creator | North Carolina. Eugenics Board. |
Publisher | [Raleigh]: N.C. Eugenics Board, 1936-. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1938-1940 |
Identifier | NCHH-08-003-0013 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | biennialreporteug03nort_0013.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 3 |
Page Number | 9 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 9 The members of the Eugenics Board have considered each case presented individually, proceeding cautiously in order to establish a sound basis in policy and procedure for the sterilization program in North Carolina. It is believed that the heads of institutions and the superintendents of public welfare who have presented petitions for sterilization and the physicians who have made examinations and recommendations have given these cases thorough consideration. The magnitude of the problems of feeble-mindedness and mental disease in the State indicates, however, that sterilization must be done on a much larger scale if the program is to become effective. On December 31, 1939 North Carolina ranked fifth among the states with regard to the total number of sterilization operations performed, but with regard to the number of sterilizations performed per 100,000 population North Carolina ranked seventeenth. Under statutory provisions Delaware had 245 sterilizations per 100,000 population; California, 242; while North Carolina had only 28 sterilizations per 100,000 population. The complete list may be seen in this report on page 13. Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, with Particular Attention to a Folloiv-Up Study of Non-Institutional Cases in North Carolina, April 5, 1933 to January 1, 1939 was recently completed as a thesis for a master’s degree at the University of North Carolina by Miss Eleanor Welborn. Some of the principal conclusions of Miss Welborn’s comparative study are as follows: “1. Thirty and five-tenths percent of the sterilized patients in North Carolina who were single prior to sterilization married subsequent to sterilization as compared with 11.6% of the single patients in South Dakota and 28.3% of the single patients in Minnesota. California’s statistics on this subject were not in comparable form. These figures indicate that North Carolina has a higher proportion of patients, single at the time of their sterilization who have married following the operation. The marriage rate of single males was much lower in all the above-named states than the marriage rate of the single females. “2. Forty-three and nine-tenths per cent of the North Carolina patients thought that they were better off for having been sterilized as compared with 53.2% of the patients in South Dakota and 22% of the patients in California; 14.8% of the patients in North Carolina were dissatisfied with the results of |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-08/nchh-08-003.pdf |
Document Sort | all; nchh-08 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-08-003 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-08 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2458531 |
Revision History | done |
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