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Show 50 pingectomie ,were performed, ized. No 1933. Total since sterilizations Table I and. no a total steril were reported for 1932, were 1925: males, shows males of 39; females, 34= 73. seventy-nine operation (Two oases, involving seventy-seven patients. males caet r ate a who had been vaseotomized several years 1ier.) in the Taking eighty-six biennial and four two The was every had of in the has a ratio ten times as Statute has been in many ear- in ninety- about numbers, person Insanity, ten 1930 o en sterilized for California,which sterilizationldone in the (approximately) one ster- 32 states, one find we general population. ilization for eaoh 515 ately state Bord of institutions This' means performed most of the . United the state population in round 507,000. 5,510 in Utah are being tne humber reported reported by the State Prison, sterilizations years. sus, reports as for or of state reSidents, operations foroe, however, as or Utah. much proportio California's longer than Utah's. F. O. Butler of the Sonoma state Home, puts the figure. for his state of California up to date, at about 11,000. (Letter to the writer, May 22, 1933). 3l.Dr. 32.,A Uni ted States Total for ay, 1933, may be in t he sterilization operations. The .latest printed report the writer has seen is in Land man's Human Sterilization, p. 289, in which the United states total is 12,145, to whioh figure ·California's con tribution is 7,548. The report is as of January, 1932. For full oOPY of table, see Appendix neighborhood of 16,000 legal |
