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Title: Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon.
Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health

Author: W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews and J. Beck

Release Date: July 29, 2006 [EBook #18932]

Language: English

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1925.
NEW ZEALAND.

MENTAL DEFECTIVES AND SEXUAL OFFENDERS.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY APPOINTED BY
THE HON. SIR MAUI POMARE,
K.B.E., C.M.G., MINISTER OF HEALTH.

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_Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave._

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CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE.

HON. W. H. TRIGGS, M.L.C., Chairman.

SIR DONALD MCGAVIN, Kt., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.S.
(Eng.), Director-General of Medical Services, Defence Department.

SIR FREDERICK TRUBY KING, Kt., C.M.G., M.B., B.Sc. (Public
Health) (Edin.), Director Division of Child Welfare, Department of
Health.

J. SANDS ELLIOTT, Esq., M.D., Bac. Surg. (Edin.), Chairman of
the Council of the N.Z. Branch of the British Medical Association.

MISS ADA G. PATERSON, M.B., Ch.B. (N.Z.), L.M. (Dublin),
Director Division of School Hygiene, Department of Health.

C. E. MATTHEWS, Esq., Under-Secretary for Justice and
Controller-General of Prisons, &c.

J. BECK, Esq., Officer in Charge Special Schools Branch,
Education Department.

Secretary: J. W. BUCHANAN, Esq.

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CONTENTS.

PART I.--INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL. PAGE

Section 1.--=Origin and Scope of Inquiry=: Mental D