ID# 538:
Questionaire on the sterilization of "defectives"
Date:
Circa 1912
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6)
Source:
American Philosophical Society, Dav, B D27,Ser 2,letters

Questionaire on the sterilization of &quote;defectives&quote;

(image 538 is companion to image 539) Report from Institutions Practicing the Operations. 1. Name of Institutions... 2. Operations legally sanctioned or performed as a medical or punitive necessity without legal sanction... 3. If legally sanctioned - date of law... Organization of commissioners or other body authorized to enforce the law... 4. Surgeons performing the operation... 5. When performed... 6. Number of cases operated upon [chart follows] MALES&&&&FEMALES Castration&Vasectomy&Any other method&Ovariotomy&Salpingectomy&Any other method [left column heads] Criminal Insane Feeble-minded Epileptic Any other types of defectives or degenerates [end chart] 7. Standards of selections for sterilization... 8. Litigation or social situations growing out of operation... 9. Opinions of surgeons, commissioners, and superintendents in reference to the operation... Note. It is highly desirable that additional reports from institutions much fuller than that called for by the above schedule be made. Such additional reports to be along the lines that in the judgment of the collaborator will best serve the needs of this particular investigation. It is also desirable that the history of individual cases be reported on the following forms.

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