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 HealthNew Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
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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
New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
Mental health laws -- New Zealand; People with mental disabilities -- Care -- New Zealand; People with mental disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New Zealand; Sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New Zealand; Sterilization (Birth control) -- New Zealand
Section 2.--=Heredity= _v._ =Environment=: Genetics and
Heredity; Heredity and Environment, Aspects reviewed;
Degenerate Families, Life-histories; Dr. Macgregor, Deductions
from his Report; Degenerate Stocks imported, Effect of;
Environmental Factor, Importance of; Pre-natal and Post-natal
Care, Value of; Housing Problem; Relationship of Impaired
Nutrition, Debility, and Disease to Impaired Control; Dietetics
and Child Welfare; Picture-shows, Effect on Children, and
Recommendations; Venereal Disease Committees' Report as to
Effect of Syphilis, &c.; Director Division of School Hygiene,
Attention drawn to Report; Excessive Competition, Effect on
School-children 6
Section 3.--=Illustrative Cases of Hereditary Degeneracy=: Juke
Family; Kallikak Family; New Zealand Cases cited; Sir Robert
Stout's Comments 7
Section 4.--=Elements of the Problem=: Basic Phases,
Registration, Educational Care and Training of Feeble-minded
Children, Oversight and Supervision; Educational Curriculum for
various Groups; Residential Schools; Farm and Industrial
Colonies for Segregation 11
Section 5.--=Estimates as to Numbers of Mental Defectives=:
Education Department Returns; Retardation, Problem of;
Feeble-minded and Epileptic Cases, Return showing 12
Section 6.--=Study of Feeble-minded and Delinquent Children=:
Methods employed in other Countries; United States of America;
New Zealand; Need of Psychological Experts; Tredgold, Quotation
from 14
Section 7.--=Method of dealing with Mental Defectives in New
Zealand--Present Legal Provision for Notification and Education
of Feeble-minded Children and for Care of Custodial
Feeble-minded Adults and Children=: Education Act, 1914;
Provision of; "Feeble-minded," Definition of; Mental Defectives
Act, 1911; English Mental Deficiency Act; Public Schools,
Special Classes; Epileptic Children, Education of; Otekaike and
Richmond Special Schools; Nature of Institutions and Training,
with Suggestions; Caversham Industrial School; Weraroa Boys'
Training-farm; Committal, Nature of; Value of Home Life in
Comparison with Institutional 14
Section 8.--=Children's Courts=: Committee's Recommendations;
Clinics for Physical and Psychological Examination 17
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