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Show 52 Types of Operations The number of castrations 33 ately very large. With the in Utah in Utah cases found and of the 1922 or earlier, in 1927, tions for that year is one of' the reported'as to a on ten male are for 1933(May) inclusive, are, vasectomies, of oas- steriliza- vaseotomy. males va- Three of the years and five castrations. are sterilizations practically 33. when eight institutional operations 1928 two reported in this study all trations up, to the proportion- exceptions ectomies performed by Dr. Hyde the is Compare all of females at the state Hospital salpingeotomies. with California: nmhe operation for all males is vaseotomy, case are no having been castrated, though we desire to perform as the an operation, ttorney-General has ruled that such it would be unlawful and unconstitutional to castrate the way our present law reads.t1frDr. F.O.Butler, Medical Super intendent of the Sonoma State Home, Eldridge, California. Letter to the writer, May 22, '1933. "Castration is not used as a means to steriliza tion in this state. If my memory is correct, I found thre .histories of castration operation in the entire period I covered. These were all therapeutic. It is very rare to find a oase of removal of the ovaries for the purpose of influencing sexual behavior, but I remember a few such. I should suppose that their number would be less than 1%." --Dr. Paul Popenoe. Letter to the writer, dated May 18,1933. (It will be noted there is no discrepanoy in these two statements. Dr. Butler is speaking on the policy he knows to be in force in the state, and from his experience at r. Popenoefs three castration cases re is institution. present sterilization that was effeoted only incidentally to therapeutic operation.) |
