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Eugenics and Degeneracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

C. T. Ewart
C. T. Ewart*
Affiliation:
Claybury Asylum
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The object of this paper is to consider whether it is necessary or advisable to introduce ordinances for the discouragement of parenthood on the part of the “unfit,” and the encouragement of large families on the part of the “fit,” in fact the eugenic principle, and to those who believe that the only true cure of insanity is its prevention, the subject must be of vast importance.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 56 , Issue 235 , October 1910 , pp. 670 - 685
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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References

1 Lieut.-Col. Hill-Climo.—(2) These statistics are extracted from the Family and the Nation (Whetham).Google Scholar

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