London, Jan. 16—Painless but compulsory death is the latest means advanced here to purge the population of this country of feeble-minded and incurable invalids. Alderman Dr. Preston King, brother of Bishop King, advocated the lethal gas chamber for incurables in a speech at Bath.
Along with the painless eradication of the physically and mentally ruined, Dr. King took his place beside Dr. Marie Stopes of the Birth Control League, by strongly urging the sterilization of those unfit to propagate the human race.
The painless execution of the unfit has attracted public attention before, both here and in America.
The lethal chamber still has many converts to win before it can be said to even threaten the United Kingdom. It is significant, however, that scarcely a week passes since the war but that some person advocates either sterilization or the lethal chamber as the means of bettering the human race.
From page 5 of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Jan. 20, 1923.
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