The sterilization law was only for the feeble-minded at certain state institutions and made no mention of other state institutions or those who were not in an institution.
This commission discovered 1,146 feeble-minded persons in insane hospitals and 2,627 in almshouses, county-care hospitals, reformatories, and prisons and were in immediate need of specialized institutional care.
Prevailing notions held women to be too feeble-minded to succeed in the demanding arena of academic medicine and too delicate to endure the physical requirements of clinical practice.
Stat. 9-1706a and compared it with the procedures for committing persons who are feeble-minded, and are therefore unable properly to care for themselves and those for the mentally ill.