riod should be arranged.
(9.) That the Education Department shall report to the Eugenic
Board those inmates of special schools found incapable of
receiving benefit from further residence in such schools, and
the Eugenic Board shall be empowered to place on the register
such as they consider should be so dealt with.
(10.) In regard to those on the register, the Eugenic Board
shall have the power to order the removal of feeble-minded
persons and moral imbeciles to a farm or industrial colony to
be provided for the care and training of such persons.
(11.) That any person alleged to be feeble-minded, or the
parents or guardians of such person, shall have the right of
appeal to a Judge of the Supreme Court against the placing of
his or her name upon the register, and the parents or
guardians of any person on the register shall have the right
to apply to a Judge of the Supreme Court for the removal of
the name of such person from the register, or for his or her
release from any institution established under the Act.
(12.) The Committee recommend the establishment of farm or
industrial colonies where feeble-minded or delinquent persons
who are custodial cases may be usefully and, as far as
possible, profitably employed, and where they may receive the
care and protection required by their condition.
(13.) In regard to sterilization, the Committee find that the
operation of vasectomy in men can be carried out under local
anaesthesia, and is free from risk. The analogous operation of
salpingectomy in women is an abdominal operation, but the risk
is not considered serious. These operations are effective in
preventing procreation, but do not otherwise interfere with
the sexual powers of the patient. In the case of persons
suffering from recurrent insanity or idiopathic epilepsy,
high-grade morons, and others who in the interests of
themselves and of society ought not to be allowed to
reproduce, but who do not for other reasons require custodial
care, it is desirable that the operation of sterilization
should be considered by the Eugenic Board.
(14.) The Committee recommends that the Eugenic Board should
be given the power in suitable cases to make sterilization a
condition of release from any of the institutions under the
charge of the Department of Mental Hospital
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