§ Mr. POTTERasked the Minister of Health whether he is in a position to state in how many cases was the operation of sterilisation carried out on male and on female patients in hospitals subject to his inspection in the counties of London and Middlesex in 1934?
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Sir H. YOUNGI am not in a position to state the number of operations performed in these hospitals during 1934 which may have resulted in sterilisation, but I am informed that in no case was an operation of sterilisation performed with the object of preventing the propagation of unsound offspring.