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Social Hygiene Movement Eugenics Sterilisation

The NCMH and CAMH were organizations that helped run institutions for the mentally handicapped and develop training for mental health professionals. They advocated for eugenics and sterilization as a way to deal with those considered too mentally deficient to work or have a family. The beginnings of the National Association for Mental Health also coincided with the development of the UK's National Health Service and welfare state.

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Social Hygiene Movement Eugenics Sterilisation

The NCMH and CAMH were organizations that helped run institutions for the mentally handicapped and develop training for mental health professionals. They advocated for eugenics and sterilization as a way to deal with those considered too mentally deficient to work or have a family. The beginnings of the National Association for Mental Health also coincided with the development of the UK's National Health Service and welfare state.

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The NCMH had been an organisation of psychiatrists and psychologists, while the CAMH

comprised representatives of various voluntary bodies. Among other things, they helped run and
monitor institutions for the mentally handicapped, and developing training for mental health
professionals. They were both part of the social hygiene movement, and had advocated eugenics
and sterilisation as a means of dealing with those considered too mentally deficient to be assisted
into healthy productive work and contented family life.[6]
The beginnings of the National Association for Mental Health also coincided with the
development of the National Health Service and the welfare state.

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