Abstract
EARLY this year a Departmental Committee was appointed by the Minister of Health to examine and report upon the information already available regarding the hereditary transmission and other causes of mental disorder and deficiency, to consider the value of sterilisation as a preventive measure, having regard to its physical, psychological and social aspects, and to the experience of legislation in other countries permitting it, and to suggest what further inquiries might usefully be undertaken in this connexion. This Committee, which is still sitting, is not concerned with the translation into action of any recommendation that it may make, but there is in being a small non-party group, the secretary of which is Wing-Commander A. W. H. James, already prepared with a permissive Bill to legalise the voluntary sterilisation of certain mental defectives, and which has been waiting for the opportunity of introducing this during ‘private members’ time. Recently this Parliamentary Sterilisation Committee has circulated to both Houses a memorandum which explains its views and gives a detailed account of the Bill that it is proposed to introduce.
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