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*****Low-lifes | *****Low-lifes | ||
***“British eugenicists talked of the loss of able Englanders to the colonies and of the influx of immigrants, they stressed the threat of national fiber arising from the differential birth rates” (3) | ***“British eugenicists talked of the loss of able Englanders to the colonies and of the influx of immigrants, they stressed the threat of national fiber arising from the differential birth rates” (3) | ||
*Mental deficiency | **Mental deficiency | ||
**Ellen Parker Pinsent | ***Ellen Parker Pinsent | ||
**Winston Churchill’s stance on the matter was that feebleminded people should be “segregated under proper conditions so that their curse died with them and was not transmitted to future generations” (p. 98). | ***Winston Churchill’s stance on the matter was that feebleminded people should be “segregated under proper conditions so that their curse died with them and was not transmitted to future generations” (p. 98). | ||
**Mental deficiency bill passed in 1913 | ***Mental deficiency bill passed in 1913 | ||
***Recognized that there are varieties of mental deficiency and they range from, cretinism or mongolism to the inability to benefit from education. | ****Recognized that there are varieties of mental deficiency and they range from, cretinism or mongolism to the inability to benefit from education. | ||
***The law did not enforce segregation or sterilization. | ****The law did not enforce segregation or sterilization. | ||
***The law did “grant a central authority compulsory powers to detain and segregate certain of the ‘feebleminded,’ a feature which would result in some curbs upon multiplication of the unfit” (p. 99). | ****The law did “grant a central authority compulsory powers to detain and segregate certain of the ‘feebleminded,’ a feature which would result in some curbs upon multiplication of the unfit” (p. 99). | ||
***The feebleminded included | ****The feebleminded included | ||
****habitual drunks | *****habitual drunks | ||
****poor people | *****poor people | ||
****pregnant women on poor relief | *****pregnant women on poor relief | ||
****people pregnant with an illegitimate child | *****people pregnant with an illegitimate child | ||
****unemployed | *****unemployed | ||
****Genetics has become a huge role on the determinacy of such conditions. | ****Genetics has become a huge role on the determinacy of such conditions. | ||
**No Sterilization Laws or marriage laws were ever passed in Britain, the only British Colony to pass a sterilization law was Alberta | |||
Revision as of 05:37, 2 December 2009
- Socially Driven
- People
- Karl Pearson
- Galton Eugenics Laboratory
- Havelock Ellis
- Ellen Parker Pinsent
- An activist in the school program for mentally handicapped children.
- She wrote multiple books on mental health policy and then became a member of the Royal Commission on Care and Control of the Feebleminded from 1904-1908.
- In the 1910 election, she demanded that every candidate for Parliament address the topic of the feebleminded and discouraging parenthood.
- Eugenics Education Society
- Karl Pearson
- Legislation
- Immigration
- Alien’s Act of 1905
- Government could prevent the following people from entering the country
- Diseased
- Criminals
- Low-lifes
- Government could prevent the following people from entering the country
- “British eugenicists talked of the loss of able Englanders to the colonies and of the influx of immigrants, they stressed the threat of national fiber arising from the differential birth rates” (3)
- Alien’s Act of 1905
- Mental deficiency
- Ellen Parker Pinsent
- Winston Churchill’s stance on the matter was that feebleminded people should be “segregated under proper conditions so that their curse died with them and was not transmitted to future generations” (p. 98).
- Mental deficiency bill passed in 1913
- Recognized that there are varieties of mental deficiency and they range from, cretinism or mongolism to the inability to benefit from education.
- The law did not enforce segregation or sterilization.
- The law did “grant a central authority compulsory powers to detain and segregate certain of the ‘feebleminded,’ a feature which would result in some curbs upon multiplication of the unfit” (p. 99).
- The feebleminded included
- habitual drunks
- poor people
- pregnant women on poor relief
- people pregnant with an illegitimate child
- unemployed
- Genetics has become a huge role on the determinacy of such conditions.
- No Sterilization Laws or marriage laws were ever passed in Britain, the only British Colony to pass a sterilization law was Alberta
- Immigration
