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1925.
NEW ZEALAND.
MENTAL DEFECTIVES AND SEXUAL OFFENDERS.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY APPOINTED BY
THE HON. SIR MAUI POMARE,
K.B.E., C.M.G., MINISTER OF HEALTH.
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_Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave._
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CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
HON. W. H. TRIGGS, M.L.C., Chairman.
SIR DONALD MCGAVIN, Kt., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.S.
(Eng.), Director-General of Medical Services, Defence Department.
SIR FREDERICK TRUBY KING, Kt., C.M.G., M.B., B.Sc. (Public
Health) (Edin.), Director Division of Child Welfare, Department of
Health.
J. SANDS ELLIOTT, Esq., M.D., Bac. Surg. (Edin.), Chairman of
the Council of the N.Z. Branch of the British Medical Association.
MISS ADA G. PATERSON, M.B., Ch.B. (N.Z.), L.M. (Dublin),
Director Division of School Hygiene, Department of Health.
C. E. MATTHEWS, Esq., Under-Secretary for Justice and
Controller-General of Prisons, &c.
J. BECK, Esq., Officer in Charge Special Schools Branch,
Education Department.
Secretary: J. W. BUCHANAN, Esq.
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CONTENTS.
PART I.--INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL. PAGE
Section 1.--=Origin and Scope of Inquiry=: Mental Deficiency,
Increase of; North Canterbury Hospital Board and others suggest
Inquiry; Committee, Personnel; Nature of Inquiry; Places
visited and inspected; Sittings, Date and Place of; Witnesses
examined, and Work done; Appreciation of Services rendered;
Value of Memoranda supplied by Sir George Newman, Secretary of
State for the United States, Dr. E. S. Morris (Tasmania), Dr.
Helen MacMurchy (Ottawa), and Dr. Eric Clarke (Toronto);
Secretarial Services 2
Section 2.--=Two Distinct Questions=: Mental Defectives and Sexual
Perverts, Comments on 5
PART II.--PROBLEM OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED.
Section 1.--=A Menace to Modern Civilization=: Feeble-minded,
Danger of Unrestricted Multiplication; Lothrop Stoddart's
Views; American Army, Psychological Test of; Results and
Deductions 5