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قراءة كتاب Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health
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Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health
| Father: Weak-minded. | Mother: Weak-minded. | |||||||
| Female, born 1906. | Female, born 1907. | Female, born 1908. | Female, born 1909. | Female, born 1911. | Male, born 1912. | Male, born 1913. | Male, born 1915. | Female, born 1916. |
All these children except one are feeble-minded, and when committed to the care of the State were found living under deplorable conditions. Most of these children will require lifelong control in an institution. The total cost of maintaining this family will be approximately £9,500. These children are cousins of another family under State control. There are four children, two of whom are simple-minded. The mother is feeble-minded, and the father died in a mental hospital. In this case the mothers of the children are sisters.
Case No. 2.
| Father: Feeble-minded. | Mother: Feeble-minded and drunkard. | |||||||||
| Female, illegitimate, born 1902. | Male, born 1904. | Male, born 1906. | Male, born 1907. | Male, born 1910. | Male, born 1912. | Female, born 1914. | Female, born 1916. | Male, born 1918. | Male, born 1920. | Male, born 1923. |
All these children are feeble-minded and have been brought under State control shortly after birth. Some are now in mental hospitals and some in special schools. All these children are lifelong custodial cases. The cost to the State for maintenance is approximately £16,000, towards which amount the father has contributed but £6.
Case No. 3.
| Father: Old-age pensioner in Home for Aged People. | Mother: Apparently weak mentally and morally—at present in reformatory home. | |||||||||||||||
| 1. Female. Prostitute residing with drunkard. | 2. Female. Prostitute and addicted to drink. | 3. Female. Immoral and generally bad character. Inmate of private reformatory. | 4. Female. Indifferent, married criminal, now in prison. | 5. Female. Drunkard and married a drunkard although man of good education. | 6. Female. Well-known prostitute, married member of notorious criminal family, and himself criminal. | |||||||||||
| Female, born 1908. Male, born 1915. |
Female, born 1911. | Male, born 1913. | Male, born 1907. Male, born 1914. |
Male, born 1910. | Female, born 1912. Female, born 1917. |
Male, born 1911. | Male, born 1912. | Female, born 1908. | Female, born 1912. | Female, born 1916. | Female, born 1898. Female, born 1905. |
Female, born 1900. | Female, born 1902. Female, born 1908. |
Male, born 1910. | ||
| All these children are illegitimate. Reputed father a drunkard and man of bad character. | All these children are illegitimate. In most cases the father is unknown. | Both illegitimate. Reputed fathers well-known bad characters. | Mother married a widower with three children. There are three more of marriage maintained by the State. | All delicate neurotic types and difficult to manage. | ||||||||||||
All these children, numbering twenty-one, were committed to the care of the State, in most cases shortly after birth. Twelve of the children are illegitimate. The husband of daughter No. 6 is also the father of one each of the offspring of daughters Nos. 2 and 3. Most of the children are delicate and poorly developed, and at least six of them are definitely tubercular. The remainder are either neurotic or erratic in their conduct and have given a great deal of trouble in their upbringing. The total cost to the State for the maintenance of these children may be quoted at £10,000, but of this amount £482 has been recovered from the various men liable. It is difficult to assess the State's total commitment. If some of the children have to be maintained until they reach the age of twenty-one the additional cost will be £3,000. There is the probability, too, that the offspring of these children will become charges upon the State.
Case No. 4.
| Father: Addicted to drink and degenerate. | Mother: Drunkard and morally deficient. | |||||||
| Female, born 1908. | Male, born 1909. Admitted special school, 1920. | Female, born 1910. | Male, born 1914. | Male, born 1916. | Male, born 1917. | Male, born 1918. | Male, born 1920. | Male, born 1923. |
| All these children are illegitimate and are feeble-minded, requiring lifelong control. Three are now inmates of mental hospitals, and in time the remainder of the family at present in special schools will be sent on to mental hospitals. | All probably feeble-minded. Not yet brought under State control. | |||||||
An officer of the Education Department describes the home as "one of the dirtiest and most squalid homes I have seen." The cost (including past, present, and approximate future maintenance) to the State for the upkeep of this family is estimated at £10,000. Nothing has been paid by the parents towards the support of these children. In all probability, the remaining members of the family will be brought under State control at a probable cost of £4,500.
Case No. 5.
| Father: Drunken waster; subnormal; frequently in gaol. | Mother: Feeble-minded helpless invalid. Died shortly after children committed to care of State. | |||||
| Male, born 1904. Tubercular. Partly self-supporting. | Female, born 1907. Tubercular. Suffers from epileptic seizures. Inmate mental hospital. Lifelong custody. | Male, born 1909. Subnormal. May in time become partly self-supporting under favourable conditions. | Male, born 1911. Mentally deficient. Case for lifelong control. | Male, born 1913. Mentally deficient. Lifelong custodial case. | Female, born 1914. Feeble-minded and badly nourished. Case for permanent segregation. | Male, born 1916. Very backward. May become partly self-supporting under favourable conditions. |
In 1916 the whole of this family was committed to the care of the State, and at least six of them will be lifelong cases. The cost to the State, computed up to twenty-one years in each case, is approximately £8,500, but the additional future cost may easily be estimated at £5,000, making in all the sum of £13,500. The father was ordered to pay at the rate of 15s. a week, but the amount recovered from him to date is only £156.
Case No. 6.