nts of Health, Mental Hospitals, Prisons, and
the Special Schools Branch of the Education Department are at present
suffering from the lack of expert advice in this direction, and that it
is high time the Government had in its service at least one trained
psychological expert, with recourse to the services of other men with
similar training in the four centres.

The Eugenic Board should be vested with power to examine all cases
notified and, after due investigation, to place on the register--

(1.) Such persons as in its judgment come within the
definition in the Mental Deficiency Act of feeble-minded;

(2.) Persons afflicted with epilepsy associated with
automatism or other conditions rendering them especially
liable to dangerous, immoral, or otherwise anti-social
manifestations, and in the case of juvenile epileptics the
mere frequency of fits rendering them unsuitable for
attendance at ordinary schools;

(3.) Moral imbeciles as defined in the English Mental
Deficiency Act; and

(4.) Persons discharged from mental hospitals.

It should be the function of the Board to order or recommend to the
Minister the segregation, supervision, or treatment of the different
classes. Cases receiving adequate care in their homes would not, of
course, be interfered with.

The Eugenic Board, of course, should have power to remove any name from
the register if it is of opinion that there is no longer any need for
registration. There should be the right of appeal to a Judge of the
Supreme Court against the decision of the Board to place a person on the
register, and there should also be power to apply to a Judge for the
removal of the name from the register in cases where the Board declines
to do so. These provisions should, it is considered, effectively
safeguard the liberty of the subject.

The machinery necessary to deal adequately with this vital
question--vital in its influence on the purity of our race--must be
somewhat extensive, but use should be made as far as possible of
existing governmental and private agencies and organizations.

The work requires organization, and the first essential is, therefore,
the appointment of an organizing head. Unless such an appointment is
soon made the matter will drift. The heads of the existing Departments
of State under whom such an organization might be placed have already
more business to handle than they can comfortably overtake. Some o