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declaration need only state that they do not suffer from any contagious 

 tuberculous disease or mental weakness. 



Georges Schreiber adds that according to his opinion the Scandinavian 

 system seems to provide the most efficacious, the most equitable and the 

 simplest safeguard. Were it to be adopted in France, certain modifications 

 would have to be made, contagious tuberculosis, for instance, would have 

 to be included among the diseases capable of delaying the marriage 

 ceremony. 



THE NORWEGIAN PROGRAM FOR RACEHYGIENE 

 [Abbreviated form] 



The program reprinted below — was presented to the public in a paper read 1908 be- 

 fore the Medical Association — Medicinerforeningen — Oslo. (The present Medical Secre- 

 tary of the Norwegian Medical Association Dr. J0rgen Berner in the chair.) It was 

 adopted in principle at the Eugenics Meeting, Paris 1913 (Leonard Darwin in the chair), 

 and shortly afterwards adopted at a political meeting in Oslo. (The Prime Minister of 

 Norway in the chair.) At the Norwegian meeting the Program was passed in the fol- 

 lowing form: "Prevention of Race- and National-diseases as a Function of the State." 

 Some of the reform bills have already entered legislation, others are in preparation. 



Negative Racehygiene 



(Reducing the number of inferior race elements) 



* Segregation of Cri min als in working colonies. 



* Sterilisation of Inferior Race elements. (Not compulsory.) 



Positive Racehygiene 

 (Increasing the number of valuable racial elements) 



* Selective Inner Colonization. Preventing Evacuation of the Country. Agricultural 



Organization independent of City centers. Progressive Wage System and regressive 

 tax-system for family-supporters. 



* Maternity Insurance and other positive measures. 



Human Biology in school and university. Reform of the present masculine education 

 of women. Young girls more fit for motherhood. 



* Clearing House for concentration and diffusion of knowledge respecting the renewal, 



the nourishment, the health and the movement of population. Centre for Eugenic 

 Science — national and international — with a Consultative Committee which should 

 be heard in all questions concerning population problems. 



* A book on Racehygiene has been published from the Laboratory explaining the above 

 program in details. The book and the author was severely attacked by medical men in 

 and outside the University, Oslo. (See "Den Nordiske Race," 1927.) But thanks to 

 the support of the three succeeding ministers for social affairs, Lars Abrahamsen, Johan 

 Castberg, Friis Petersen, several of the reform-bills suggested in the program have already 

 become law in Norway or are in preparation by official initiation (marked*) . 



