Intelligent Criminals: “Often Cleverer than Ordinary People.” Problem of the Defective: “Statistics seem to show that the general intelligence of criminals is not less, but possibly rather more than that of the general public,” said Dr. Kemle, speaking yesterday at the Conference of the Central Association for Mental Welfare, at Westminster … … (discussion) … … “Wholesale sterilisation,” said Ms. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner of the Board of Control, “is absolutely outside the scope of practical po8tcs and is not worth even a few minutes’ consideration.” Miss Hodgson of the Eugenics Society, said the Society was recommending to member of Parliament that whenever a new Bill to deal with mental deficiency was proposed, a clause should be inserted making it a misdemeanor to marry or connive in the marriage of person certified under the Mental Deficiency Act unless there was a reason to suppose the marriage would not be fertile.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949