PART III.--SEXUAL OFFENDERS.

Section 1.--=Scope and Origin of the Inquiry=: Prisons Board, Resolution passed; Medical and Surgical Reports; Indeterminate Sentence; Segregation 24

Section 2.--=Seriousness of the Evil=: Sexual Offenders, Numbers serving Sentence; Government Statistician's Return of Persons sentenced 25

Section 3.--=Types of Offences=: Sexual Offences; Various Classes, with Comments on; Types found in Prisons; Inspector of Prisons' Opinion; Sexual Perverts, Cure of 25

Section 4.--=Suggested Remedies=: Corporal Punishment; Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals' Recommendations; =Sterilization and Desexualization=; Castration; Sterilization; British Medical Association, N.Z., Motion passed; Vasectomy and Castration; Committee's Recommendation 26

Section 5.--=Scientific Treatment and Segregation with Indeterminate Sentence=: Medical Examination; Indeterminate Sentence; Women and Children, Protection of; Mr. Hawkins's Evidence on Control of Sexual Perverts 27

Section 6.--=Summary of Recommendations=: Crimes Act; Prisons Board, Powers of; Psychiatrist, Appointment and Duties; Eugenic Board, Power to advise Prisons Board; Sterilization; =Concluding Remarks= 27

APPENDIX.--=Past Mistakes in Immigration=: Extract from Report on Hospitals and Charitable Institutions of the Colony, 1888, by the late Dr. Macgregor, Inspector-General. =The Health of School Children=: Extract from the Report of the Director of the Division of School Hygiene, 1924. =Return showing Sexual Offenders= serving Sentence in New Zealand Prisons, 1924. =Table showing the Number of Sexual Offenders sentenced under respective Headings in New Zealand Prisons. Some Illustrative Histories= 29

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The Hon. the Minister of Health, Wellington.

SIR,--

The Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders appointed by you to inquire into and report upon the necessity for special care and treatment of mental defectives and sexual offenders in New Zealand have the honour to submit herewith their report.