The Committee recommends that the Eugenic Board should be given the
power in suitable cases to make sterilization a condition of release
from any of the institutions under the charge of the Department of
Mental Hospitals or removal of their names from the register on
probation, but that in no case should the operation be performed without
the consent of parents or guardians of the persons concerned.

The Committee consider that the persons so operated upon and liberated
should be released on probation and kept under supervision for a
reasonable period, and that they should be returned to institutional
care if found to be leading an immoral life, or unable to support
themselves, or for any other reason which the Eugenic Board may consider
sufficient.

If the recommendation as to sterilization being authorized under the
conditions specified is adopted, the Committee think it would be
advisable to introduce some provision as in the American Acts, making it
unlawful to perform operations whose object is the prevention of
reproduction in cases not authorized by the Board unless the same shall
be a medical necessity.

SECTION 11.--SEGREGATION.

It will be neither possible nor desirable to segregate all mental
defectives. Feeble-minded children who are receiving adequate care and
training in their own homes will, of course, be left there. When they
reach the age of adolescence the question of their disposal should be
considered by the Board. In many cases the inmates of special schools,
after they have received some training, would do well if returned to
their homes or boarded out in selected foster-homes under supervision.

The real difficulty arises, especially in the case of girls, when the
age of adolescence is reached.

In the opinion of the Committee it is of the utmost importance that
mental defectives should be prevented from reproducing. No person who
has been placed on the register should be allowed to marry until the
Eugenic Board has given its consent by removing the name from the
register.

It is altogether wrong to suppose that there is any unkindness in taking
the feeble-minded, who are unable to battle for themselves, under the
care of the State and preventing them from bringing forth another
generation of defectives. The real unkindness consists in allowing such
unfortunates to be brought into the world.

In school, and still more in the after-struggle for existence, the
feeble-minded find themse