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ijNC-C" HE4LTM SCIENCES lIBBiRY H00006283 Cbe Hitrarp of t|)e D<Dt$ton of \0ta\tb affairs (UnitiecjSitp of H^ottl) Carolina i 1 Form No. Biennial Report OF The Eugenics Board of North CaroHna JULY 1, 1964 TO JUNE 30, 1966 ( TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Membership, Eugenics Board of North Carolina -— - 4 Letter of Transmittal _. 5 Introduction _ 7 Developments during Biennium 8 Program Statistics _ , 8 Financial Report of Eugenics Board 11 Statistical Report on Eugenical Sterilization (Tables 1-10) 13 Table 1. Operations Performed, by Type of Operation and Origin of Petition, July 1964-June 1966 14 Table 2. Cases Handled by Fiscal Year, July 1964-June 1966 14 Table 3. Operations Performed, by Length of Time between Authorization and Operation, July 1964-June 1966 15 Table 4. State Institutional Operations, by Institution, Type of Operation, and Fiscal Year, July 1964-June 1966 15 Table 5. State Institutional Operations Authorized and Per-formed, by County of Residence, July 1964-June 1966 16 Table 6. Non-Institutional Operations Authorized and Performed, by County of Residence, July 1964-June 1966 18 Table 7. Operations Performed, by Type of Operation and Race, July 1 964-June 1 966 20 Table 8. Type of Operation Performed, by Age and Sex of Person, July 1964-June 1966 20 Table 9. Operations Performed, by Type of Diagnosis, Source of Petition, and Marital Status, July 1964-June 1966 21 Table 10. Individuals Having Children Prior to Sterilization, by Marital Status and Number of Children, July 1964-June 1966 22 Historical Data on Eugenical Sterilization in North Carolina (Table 11-18) _ _-..23 Table 11. Cases Handled by Biennial Periods, July 1933-June 1966 25 Table 12. Operations Performed Annually, by Sex and Type of Operation, July 1 929-June 1 966 26 Table 13. State Institutional Operations Performed Annually, by Sex and and Type of Operation, July 1 929-June 1966 27 Table 14. Non-Institutional Operations Performed Annually, by Sex and Type of Operation, July 1 929-June 1966 28 Table 15. State Institutional Operations, by Institution, Sex, and Type of Operation, July 1 929-June 1966 29 Table 16. Operations Performed, by Type of Operation and Race, July 1 929-June 1 966 30 Table 17. Type of Operation Performed, by Age and Sex of Person, July 1 929-June 1 966 30 Table 18. Operations Performed, by Type of Diagnosis, Source of Petition, and Marital Status, July 1 929-June 1966 ._. 31 EUGENICS BOARD OF NORTH CAROLINA R. EUGENE BROWN, Commissioner of Public Welfare, Chairman T. WADE BRUTON, Attorney General of North Carolina J. F. ELLIOTT, M.D., Superintendent, Murdoch Center, Butner, North Carolina EUGENE A. HARGROVE, M.D., Commissioner, North Carolina Department of Mental Health JACOB KOOMEN, M.D., State Health Director SUE L. CASEBOLT, Executive Secretary LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL To his Excellency, DAN K. MOORE Governor of North Carolina Dear Sir: I have the honor of submitting herewith the report of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina for the biennial period dating from July 1, 1964 through June 30, 1966. Respectfully yours, (\5^J.^dP*^'t'^-^2-. i&V^^-w^ Chairman INTRODUCTION The eugenical sterilization program of North Carolina is admin-istered under Article 7, Chapter 35, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, enacted in 1933. This law provides for the sterili-zation of persons who are mentally ill, mentally retarded, or epilep-tic. The law refers to the first two disabilities as the "mentally diseased" and "feebleminded." in addition to objective evidence of one of the three impairments, it must be shown as the result of social, medical, psychiatric, and/or psychological study that sterili-zation is applicable to the needs of the particular individual. The purpose of sterilization as it is administered under the North Carolina program is to protect persons from parenthood whose impairments would seriously handicap them in assuming the responsibilities of parents. The law protects the individual in that it provides for the written consent of the husband or wife or the nearest relative. It also pro-vides for the right of a hearing and an appeal to the courts. These latter rights are seldom exercised due to the fact that the in-dividual and husband, or wife, or close relative usually participate in the plan and make their own decision in favor of the operation before the petition is initiated. Petitions for the sterilization of non-institutional persons are submitted to the Eugenics Board by the county directors of public welfare. Petitions for the sterilization of State institutional resi-dents are submitted by the superintendents of the institutions. The program is administered by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina with the assistance of an Executive Secretary. The Board is composed of five members: The Commissioner of Public Welfare of North Carolina; the Director of the State Board of Health; the chief Medical officer of an institution for the mentally ill, or the mentally retarded; the Commissioner of the State of North Caro-lina Department of Mental Health; and the Attorney General of North Carolina. The eugenical sterilization program has now been in operation for over twenty-five years. During this time the increased knowl-edge in the field of mental health has revealed many causative factors for mental illnes and mental retardation. Hereditary fac-tors take their place among a vast number of other reasons for these disabilities. In keeping abreast of the expanding knowledge in the field of mental health, the Eugenics Board has recognized that in order for the sterilization program to be effective it must be regarded as an integral part of a broad system of protection and supervision of those individuals unable to meet their responsibilities as parents. Over a period of years there has been a trend toward giving in-creased emphasis to the value of sterilization for the particular individual. Seldom is there evidence that sterilization is considered as a single means of solving a problem. To the contrary, the pro-vision is used increasingly qs one among many of the essential resources in taking care of the needs of certain individuals. This improvement in the use of the sterilization program is attributed 8 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina in a large degree to better qualified staffs in public welfare depart-ments and in institutions and to the increased interest and co-operation on the part of the medical profession. DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE BIENNIUM During the biennium, the Eugenics Board has held regular monthly meetings and in addition has held special n-ieetings at the request of petitioners. With the retirement of State Health Direc-tor, Dr. J. W. R. Norton, his successor, Dr. Jacob Koomen, has taken his place upon the Board. To promote the program and its effective use, the Eugenics Board has continued to use all available means of interpretation. Because of unusual demands upon the staff in the county depart-ments of public welfare, group meetings were temporarily dis-continued, but discussion of the program has continued on an individual basis with the staff of county departments of public welfare, the State institutions for the mentally ill and mentally re-tarded, and public health personnel. This has been chiefly the responsibility of the Executive Secretary, and she has been aided in individual cases by the field representatives, child welfare con-sultants, and psychologists of the State Board of Public Welfare. Attendance at a variety of meetings, both state and local, also has been used to promote the program. The Executive Secretary participated in a Management Seminar conducted by the Institute of Government during this period as well OS special institutes on the needs of the mentally retarded. The Eugenics Board is a member of the North Carolina Health Council and the Mental Health Council and has been regularly represented at the meetings of these organizations. Feature articles have been prepared for the press as well as for publications of various State agencies. The manual of the Eugenics Board has been kept up-to-date as changes have occurred and has been widely distributed to appro-priate agencies in the State. There has been consistent interest in the use of the program and as lower case loads in welfare departments become more wide-spread, this is expected to increase. PROGRAM STATISTICS During the biennium, 461 petitions were presented to the Eugenics Board for review. Operations were authorized in 368 cases, amounting to 79.8 per cent of the petitions. There were 356 operations performed, or 96.7 per cent of the operations author-ized. Some of the operations performed hod been authorized in the previous biennium, and some of the operations authorized during the 1964-66 biennium could not be performed until the following biennium. Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 9 Of the 356 operations, 350 were performed upon women and only 6—1.7 per cent of the total—were performed upon men. Rarely are asexualizations ordered by the Eugenics Board, and there were none ordered during the biennium. Fifty-eight operations performed were for persons in State insti-tutions: Eighteen at Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro; seventeen at Broughton l-iospital at Morganton; five at John Umstead Hospital at Butner; three at Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh; ten at Caswell Center at Kinston; three at Murdoch Center at Butner; and two at O'Berry Center at Goldsboro. The remaining 298 per-sons having operations were non-institutional cases. Petitions for their operations originated in county departments of public wel-fare. The 316 non-institutional operations authorized were upon peti-tions received from 73 of the 100 counties of the State. The 298 non-institutional operations performed were for 75 different coun-ties. Counties with the highest number of non-institutional opera-tions during the biennium were: Mecklenburg—26; Rowan—12; Wayne—12; Durham—11; New Hanover—10. Of the 356 persons having operations, 124 were white, 228 Neg.-o, and 4 Indian. The majority of the persons sterilized were adolescents or young adults: 38.2 per cent were between 20 and 30 years of age, and 46.6 per cent were under 20. The operations for sterilization were performed because of the following conditions: 308, or 86.5 per cent, because of "feeble-mindedness"; 47, or 13.2 per cent, because of "mental disease"; and 1, or 0.3 per cent, because of "epilepsy." More than three-fourths, or 274 persons, sterilized were single. One in ten, or 38 persons, were married. The remaining 44 were widowed, divorced, or separated from their spouses. Seventy-three per cent of the 356 persons having operations (261 persons) had already had children prior to the operation, ',l^- cluding 55 who had had five children or more each. The 261 persons were the parents of 775 children; 425, or 55 per cent, of these children were reported to have been born out-of-wedlock. There continues to be a decline in the number of sterilizations requested by State institutions, and the general improvement in as well as wider availability of medical means of birth control have made sterilization of non-institutional persons less pressing. The Eugenics Board wishes to express its appreciation to the professional persons and to the general public who have con-tributed to the success of the program. Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina n FINANCIAL REPORT OF EUGENICS BOARD, 1964-1966 Item Expenditures Actual 1 964-65 Actual 1965-66 Salaries and Wages Supplies and Materials —— Postage, Telephone and Telegraph Travel Expense -— Printing and Binding — . General Expense Equipment Repairs and Alterations $11,008.00 26.43 403.98 147.10 262.56 15.00 67.62 36.73 $12,466.00 49.07 302.22 9.85 190.47 15.00 21.42 $11,967.42 $13,054.03 TABLE 1-10 STATISTICAL REPORT ON EUGENICAL STERILIZATION DURING THE 1964-1966 BIENNIUM 14 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina CO < I-c o 0) Q_ o co co O NO VO o c 3 a I-X) "a E co a O o Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 15 c o (1) a O -o co cg oN o < c 3 <u £ Q. c o a O *o Oh 0) c3 ^O Ov _>. 3 Ov c3 >o 3 c 0) Ov «o CO r- O CO >o — ^ CO "t CO CN CO ^ .— ^ 00 lO O '"T CO •n ^ lO 0> CN 03 00 o> -^ •— CS a ^ in 1^ — CO j: 5 o o o c ^ ^ ^ ^ o -^ _« _a> _« CM O O n ° « -^C — O -. E « -£ *- B -a -B -B -B -C C c c c *- o o o o S E E E E -jf-COkOK — CM-^ o 16 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina State TABLE 5 Institutional Operations Authorized and Performed, by County of Residence July 1964 -June 1966 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 17 TABLE 5 (Continued) County of Residence Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg _ Mitchell Montgomery . Moore Nosh New Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank — Pender Perquimans — . Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania _. Tyrrell Union Vance i Wake Warren Washington .... Watauga Wayne I Wilkes Wilson .- '' Yadkin Yancey Total Operations Authorized Performed 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 2 2 1 July 1964-June 1965 Operations Authorized 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Performed 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 July 1965-June 1966 Operations Authorized Performed 18 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina TABLE 6 Non-Institutional Operations Authorized and Performed, by County of Residence July 1964-June 1966 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 19 TABLE 6 (Continued) County of Residence Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery . Moore Nash New Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank ... Pender Perquimans .__ Person Pitt Polk Randolph ._ Richmond Robeson Rockingham ._ Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania - Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington — Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancey Total Operations Authorized Performed 3 1 6 4 1 1 2 1 2 29 4 5 14 1 6 2 2 5 2 5 7 5 1 2 14 1 2 10 3 1 1 1 1 10 5 1 14 2 3 1 4 1 7 1 4 1 1 1 1 2 26 3 4 10 3 3 3 1 5 1 5 7 4 1 4 12 1 2 9 1 1 1 1 8 3 1 12 2 4 1 July 1964-June 1965 Operations Authorized 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 13 4 1 6 1 5 1 1 4 1 4 6 10 1 4 1 1 6 2 1 9 1 2 1 Performed 4 1 3 16 2 1 5 3 2 1 4 1 4 2 1 3 11 1 1 3 1 1 July 1965-June 1966 Operations Authorized 2 1 3 2 1 16 4 8 4 1 2 4 1 1 6 2 1 1 4 3 5 1 1 Performed 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 10 1 3 5 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 6 1 1 6 3 1 7 2 1 20 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina TABLE 7 Operations Performed, by Type of Operation and Race July 1964-June 1966 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 21 O LU < I- 0) Uk. 3 O .52 V) O irt D) +- O O NO 5k C -Q O (U o £ '-^ 0) Q. 10 C o o 22 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina >> o 4- oN c CO Si J3 c >oX o 3 *> C oo o UJ TABLES 11-18 HISTORICAL DATA ON EUGENICAL STERILIZATION IN NORTH CAROLINA Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 25 TABLE 11 Coses Handled by Biennial Periods July 1933 -June 1966 Biennial Period 26 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina TABLE 12 Operations Performed Annually, by Sex and Type of Operation July 1929 -June 1966 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 27 TABLE 13 State Institutional Operations Performed Annually, by Sex and Type of Operation July 1929 -June 1966 28 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina TABLE 14 Non-Institutional Operations Perfornned Annually by Sex and Type of Operation Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 29 I 2 o in — 3 co > o co 0) c3 I/) CD c On c >» .2 3 0) a O oco o 4- 30 Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina TABLE 16 Operations Performed, by Type of Operation and Race July 1929-June 1966 Type of Operation Biennial Report of The Eugenics Board of North Carolina 00 GO < 4) / ^^ This book circulates for a/2f-week period and is due on the last date stamped below. It may be renewed for one additional period. The fine for late return is ^^C^..a day. MAR 2 3 19 APR z 7 198 APR 5 '^r-.r - W] 2 2 1999 ^««1 ^PR 12 »Sj" APR 1 2 li APR251S|8 JANi |PR07 if »f»f°» M f-S UNC CH HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY ' III I H00006283 HQ 750 .Al N86U.U 1935 North Carolina. Eugenics "board. Eugenical sterilization in North Carolina
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Title | Biennial report of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina |
Creator | North Carolina. |
Date | 1964; 1965; 1966 |
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Eugenics--North Carolina Involuntary sterilization--North Carolina--Statistics Involuntary sterilization |
Place | North Carolina, United States |
Time Period | (1945-1989) Post War/Cold War period |
Description | 1934-66 vol. bound with R. Eugene Brown's Eugenical Sterilization in North Carolina.; Vol. numbering ceased with 2nd (1936/1938). |
Publisher | [Raleigh] :N.C. Eugenics Board,1936- |
Agency-Current | Eugenics Board of North Carolina |
Rights | State Document see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,63754 |
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