Sterilizations This
Year Increasing
Over 100 Operations Re
ported During First
Half of Year
If eugenical sterilizations for the
last six months of 1938 keep pace
with those reported up to June 30,
this year bids fair to surpass 1935;
when feeble-minded and mentally dis
eased persons in North Carolina un
dergoing operation reached a nine
year high of 178.
Reports reaching R. Eugene Bipwn,
secretary of the North Carolina Eu
genics Board, showed that 102 opera
tions performed for the first half of
1938, twenty-six under the total for
the entire twelve-month period of
1937.
All but five of the 128 sterilization
operations undergone by the feeble
minded and mentally-diseased of the
State last year were consent cases in
which the parents, guardians, or next
of kin of the patient gave written
consent to the procedure.
Members of the State Board as it
is at present constituted are Mrs. W.
T. Bost, commissioner of public wel
fare; Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, secretary
to the State Board of Health; Dr. J.
V. Ashby, superintendent of the State
Hospital in Raleigh; Harry McMullan,
attorney general, and Dr. F. M. Reg
ister, superintendent of the Caswell
Training School at Kinston.
From 1929 through 1937, a tgtal of
518 sterilizations have Been perform
ed, 246 of this number having been
persons between the ages of 10 to 19,
and 174 being 20 to 29 years old.
The total is divided, 86 males and 432
. females.
Two hundred and ninety-four of
the nine-year total of 518 cases were
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inmates of a State
being private cases, while 30 have
been inmates of a county institution
at the time of the operation.
Ninety-eight of the total cases
have been epileptics, 118 insane per
sons, while the majority of the cases
have been feeble-minded with 302 list
ed in this class up to the first of the
year.
tNorth Carolina first went into the
practice of sterilization of its jnental
defectives in 1929, following part of
the procedure of other states, some
of which adopted the practice as far
back as 1909. In February 1933, the
1929 act was held unsonstitutional by
the State Supreme Court.
While the 1919 General Assembly
passed an act intended to serve as a
sterilization measure, so far as can
be ascertained no operations were
performed under its provisions.
The State Board is now operating
under the act of the 1938 legislature
as amended during the two succeed
ing sessions, with right of appeal to
the courts established under the- new
procedure. y -
Under the N. C. law it is the duty,
of the superintendents of Public
Welfare and the heads of public
charitable and penal institutions to
petition the Eugenics Board for ster
ilization of any mentally diseased,
epileptic, or feeble-minded person
when in the opinion of such official:
It is to the best interest of the
mental, moral, or physical improve
ment of the patient.
For Public Good
The patient would be likely to
procreate a child having the same
mental deficiency.
When requested in writing by the
guardian, parent or next of kin of the
patient to have the operation per
formed.
Complete medical and social his
tories of the patient are required to
be filed with the Eugenics Board be-
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fore hearing is held on the case.
Whenever possible in the North
Carolina procedure, and it has been
true in the vast majority of the op
erations to date, desexing of the pa
tient is avoided since modern methods
of preventing procreation without re
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Misses Anna Mae and Mamie Holl
! owell, Rev. R. T. Mallory, Mr. and
! Mrs. C. B. White and daughter were
■ dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
White and daughters on Wednesday
■ evening.
i Misses Anna Mae and Mamie Holl
■ owell entertained a few of their
friends at a picnic at Holleys Wharf
Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Coffield and
children, of Foienton, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. White Sunday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Hollowell, of
Belcross, spent Sunday with his par- ;
ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hollowell. j
Little Miss Novella White spent
Saturday with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs, J. T. White.
Misses Vivian Wiggins, Lillian and
Dorothy Privott spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Novella White.
Mrs. J. T. White, MisSes Beulah
and Camilla White, Anna Mae and
Mamie Hollowell spent Monday visit
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Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Perry had as
their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. B.
M. Hollowell, Jr., and children.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoffler and
children, of Gates County, spent Sun
day afternoon with Mrs. Hoffler’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Craft.
Misses Esther, Helen and Mar
guerite Etta Evans spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Frances Lind
ley, at Guilfprd. They attended the
wedding of Miss Mary Motsinger and
Raymond Evans, of Greensboro on
Saturday afternoon. Miss Helen
Evans played for the wedding, and
Miss Marguerite Etta Evans sang.
Justin Tune and Everett Faulkner,
of Manteo, spent Monday and Monday
night with Misses Willietta, Esther
and Helen Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott spent
Sunday afternoon and evening at
Colerain with Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Perry.
Misses Orene Hollowell and Esther
Cobb, and R. H. Hollowell and Ber
tram Hollowell attended The Lost
Colony pageant at Fort Raleigh on
Sunday night.
Mrs. J. G. White, of Center Hill,
spent the week-end with Miss Willi
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Mrs. Drew Welch, who has been
sick at the home of her mother, Mrs.
R. C. Bunch, Sr., is much better and
has returned to her home.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott made a
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Miss Pearl Whichard, of New Bern,
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Winborne.
R. Talmage Malolry, of Duke Uni
versity, spent part of last week with
the Misses Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wiggins and
children spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. D. D. Wiggins, in Norfolk,
Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hollowell, Jr.,
and children spent Thursday after
noon with Mr. and Mrs. Tommie
Hollowell.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Evans spent
the week-end in Greensboro with Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Markham. They at
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Mr. Evans being best man.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Privott visited
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Bunch, in Paradise,
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. R. H. Hollowell left Monday
j for Raleigh to attend the 35th annual
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Carl Baber and sister, of Gastonia,
spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Welch, Sr. They were
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and children, who had spent a month
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Miss Sarah Winborne left Tuesday
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Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott left
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