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EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE, BULLETIN NO. 10 A.
in that it is more apt to strike at fecundity in our better classes than
among degenerates. Systems of matings purporting to remove defec-
tive traits, polygamy, euthanasia, and laissez-faire, are condemned
unreservedly.
In the subsequent reports of the studies of this committee, we pro-
pose, by the means of first-hand facts, a considerable body of which
has already been secured and studied, to present to the public data for
weighing the several problems that appertain to this investigation.
CHAPTER IV.
SUMMARY OF THE PRELIMINARY STUDIES.
In the preliminary studies of this committee facts concerning each
of the several related aspects of the problem, enumerated in the preface
of this study, have been and are still being collected. These studies
appear amply to justify the commendation to the American people of
the following program, which, if consistently followed by all of the
states and the general government, will, we believe, in two generations
largely but not entirely eliminate from the race the source of supply of
the great anti-social human varieties which now (1913) constitute
approximately 10 per cent. of the total population:
1. That, in case sterilization is limited to the inmates of institu-
tions, the American state institutions for the segregation and treatment
of the anti-social classes continue to receive public support enabling
them for at least two generations to increase their capacity for inmates
at a ratio differential in reference to the increase of the total population,
equal at least to one-half such differential growth of such institutions,
taken as a whole, during the two decades 1890-1900. Such increase
requires that by 1980 the custodial institutions of the country must be
able to care for 1,500 persons per 100,000 population.
2. That the present apparent tendency of society to commit to
institutions the socially inadequate at an early age and for a less ex-
treme type be encouraged in order (a) to insure the segregation of the
varieties sought to eliminate before the beginning of, or as early as
possible in, the reproductive period, and (b) that the earlier treatment
and training may the more surely and safely restore such individuals
to society.
3. That the segregation program be supported by a sterilization
program as follows: That during the period while under State custody
every inmate (except those committed for life) of an institution main-