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Show CRIMINALS AND INSANE TO BE STERILIZED Wholesale sterilization of persons unfit to have offspring In advocated In the biennial report of the Utah state- board of Insanity and the superintendent su-perintendent of the state mental hospital, which was filed with tho governor late yesterday. The following follow-ing recommendations are mnde in the report: Sterilization of all persons insane from hereditary causes. Creation of a state board of eugenics to control marriages nnd issue is-sue certificates for licenses to only the fit. An amendment to the pennl code giving the upper courts the power to impose a sentence of storllization In lieu of Imprisonment in certain statutory crimes. A law giving the board of pardons the power to make sterilization a requirement to procedure for parole or pardon from penal Institutions when in tho judgment of the bureau of eugenics such is necessary |