Action Likely Against All Mentally Unfit Tokyo, Nov. 25.
The Home Office is framing a bill for the sterilization of the mentally unfit, 'This action is being taken because an investigation, made in ce-operation with the Japan Eugenics Soclely, has revealed that" 70 per cent. of' the 160,000 persons in Japan known to be suffering from mental diseases have Inherited their handicaps, 'On the remaining 90 per cent, a third is attributed to' poverty and despair and) the remainder to excessive drinking and venereal dis The Home Office considers the step 'a drastic one, but the investigation shows that there is no other effective remedy to reduce the increasing number of mentally diseased, Sterilization by an electrical process will be made compulsory for those judged mentally diseased,—Router,
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