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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY TO The Eugenics Board of North Carolina The North Carolina sterilization law provides for the sterilization of mentally diseased, epileptic and feeble-minded persons, when it is believed that the individual would be likely, unless such operation is performed, “to procreate a child or children who would have a tendency to serious physical, mental, or nervous disease or deficiency.” As stated by the Human Betterment Foundation of Pasadena, California: 1. Sterilization has one effect only—it prevents parenthood. 2. It is not a punishment; it is a protection and therefore carries no stigma or humiliation. 3. It in no way unsexes the party sterilized. 4. Sterilization is approved by the families and friends of the sterilized. 5. It is approved by the medical staff, probation officers, and social workers generally wherever they have come in contact with these patients. 6. It permits patients to return to their homes and friends who would otherwise be confined to institutions during the fertile period of life. 7. The records show that many moron girls paroled after sterilization have married and are happy and succeeding fairly well. They could never have managed and cared for children, to say nothing of the inheritance and fate of such children. 8. Homes are kept together by sterilization of husband and wife in many mild cases of mental disease, thus removing the dread by the normal spouse of the procreation of a defective child and permitting normal marital companionship. 9. The operation is comparatively simple. Under conservative laws, sanely and diplomatically administered, sterilization offers to the mentally diseased, mentally defective and their families great relief and great protection to the defenseless child of the future.
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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 | 1940-1942 |
Identifier | NCHH-08-004 |
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 | 4 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-08/nchh-08-004.pdf |
Document Sort | all; nchh-08 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-08-004 |
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 7 |
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 | 1940-1942 |
Identifier | NCHH-08-004-0011 |
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 | biennialreporteug04nort_0011.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 | 4 |
Page Number | 7 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | REPORT OF THE SECRETARY TO The Eugenics Board of North Carolina The North Carolina sterilization law provides for the sterilization of mentally diseased, epileptic and feeble-minded persons, when it is believed that the individual would be likely, unless such operation is performed, “to procreate a child or children who would have a tendency to serious physical, mental, or nervous disease or deficiency.” As stated by the Human Betterment Foundation of Pasadena, California: 1. Sterilization has one effect only—it prevents parenthood. 2. It is not a punishment; it is a protection and therefore carries no stigma or humiliation. 3. It in no way unsexes the party sterilized. 4. Sterilization is approved by the families and friends of the sterilized. 5. It is approved by the medical staff, probation officers, and social workers generally wherever they have come in contact with these patients. 6. It permits patients to return to their homes and friends who would otherwise be confined to institutions during the fertile period of life. 7. The records show that many moron girls paroled after sterilization have married and are happy and succeeding fairly well. They could never have managed and cared for children, to say nothing of the inheritance and fate of such children. 8. Homes are kept together by sterilization of husband and wife in many mild cases of mental disease, thus removing the dread by the normal spouse of the procreation of a defective child and permitting normal marital companionship. 9. The operation is comparatively simple. Under conservative laws, sanely and diplomatically administered, sterilization offers to the mentally diseased, mentally defective and their families great relief and great protection to the defenseless child of the future. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-08/nchh-08-004.pdf |
Document Sort | all; nchh-08 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-08-004 |
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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