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  • Title
    Voluntary Sterilisation Committee
  • Reference
    MS5074-5075
  • Date
    1934 - 1947, most entries dates 1934 - 1939
  • Creator
  • Scope and Content
    Minutes, papers, reports, correspondence relating to creation of sterilisation programmes. A 1934 parliamentary report (the Brock Report) by the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation had called for the 'voluntary' sterilisation of people with learning disabilities, learning difficulties, and mental health conditions, as well as people considered 'unfit for parenthood.'
  • Extent
    2 folders
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    series
  • Normal location
    11/2ND/ST/R37/B10/sh3
  • Access
    Institutional records closed for 20 years after creation. Open access after 20 years