Idiocy.
2. Imbecility.
3. Criminal Taint.
4. Insanity.
5. Inebriate Taint.
6. Pauperism.
7. Deaf Mutism.
8. Epilepsy.
II. Acquired defects:--
1. Crime.
2. Insanity.
3. Epilepsy.
4. Inebrity.
5. Confirmed Pauperism.
With the exception of the very young and the very old, all members of
society, who have to be supported by others, constitute the unfit. Many
are supported by friends and relatives, but year by year, it is becoming
more noticeable, that the moral guardians of the unfit are shirking
their responsibility and handing their defective relatives over to the
State and demanding their gratuitous support as a right.
Dr. MacGregor, Inspector of Asylums and Hospitals, N.Z., in his report
for 1898, p. 5, says:--
"As if the State had a vested interest in the degradation of its people,
I find that they, as fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, are
responding to our efforts to sap their self-respect by doing their
utmost to throw the cost of maintaining their relatives on the
ratepayers. I constantly hear the plea urged that as taxpayers and old
colonists they have a right to send their relatives to State
institutions."
Our social conditions manufacture defectives, and foster their
fertility.
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