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Show 57 and number over"; be of at the of and has inmates, present the boys lower and a Uturn girls committed. in need o type of something permnent to seem custodial sup er-vf e Lon, Patient's Awareness of 39 Sterility Following Operation Many of the Utah State Hospital patients have been of too Iowa of their sterilization on class have been osophize is was is children'says teeth of the she out when she rule The males in the intelligent enough as Their castrates. not of course; reported by sterile, despite a One there because appreciate the significance operations. status them, of females. other as upon their obvious to case to mentality to phil- operation necessarily in the so girl thought her salpingectomy some a type of tumor operations; physician abdominal thought was she laid not as sear; was on the mor- a about knowing mother to of have she scar an- is several several operating table and 39.From California: "It is very rare indeed to hear of a sterilized patient who does not know that he is sterile.ff Dr. Paul Popenoe,--letter of May 18, 1933. npra.ctioally all of the patients here realize they have been sterilized but it does not seem to have any effect on the promiseui ty nor does it Lncr-eas e ve nereal disease, as the majority of our patients cannot realize the seriousness of having children, illegiti mately or otherwis-e.iT Dr. F.a.Butler, ietter cit. |