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must be selected to specialize on this work and this work alone.

The question naturally arises as to the Department of State to which the
proposed sub-department for the care of the feeble-minded might best be
attached. In the judgment of the Committee the education of
feeble-minded children should be continued by the Education Department,
which has evolved a very successful system and is administering it well.
After everything possible has been done in the matter of education a
large proportion, as they grow up, will be quite unable to hold their
own in the world, and for their own protection and safety, and in the
interests of society, must be cared for in some institution, where they
may be kept usefully occupied in gardening or farming, or in some
handicraft which will serve to keep them in health and help to recoup
the State some part of the cost of their maintenance. It is, of course,
most essential that they should not be allowed to reproduce their kind,
thus further enfeebling and deteriorating the national stock, adding to
the burden of the community and to the sum of human misery and
degradation. "To produce but not to reproduce" sums up the best scheme
of life for these unfortunates.

Looking at all the circumstances of the case, it appears to the
Committee that it would be better if the compilation of the register,
the provision of the farm and industrial colonies, and the after-care of
adult feeble-minded patients coming under Classes V and VI and "moral
imbeciles" were entrusted to a special branch of the Mental Hospitals
Department. It is essential that the feeble-minded shall be kept
separate from the insane, while the feeble-minded themselves, of course,
require careful classification.

It is very important that marriages with registered persons should be
made illegal, and, as a corollary to this, that it should be made an
indictable offence for any person knowingly to have carnal knowledge of
a registered person. It should also be provided that any parent or
guardian who facilitates or negligently allows any registered person to
have carnal intercourse with another person shall be guilty of an
indictable offence.

SECTION 10.--THE QUESTION OF STERILIZATION.

A question which has given the Committee much anxious thought is as to
whether sterilization should be adopted as a method of preventing the
propagation of the feeble-minded. That it would be an effective method
as regards the persons o