1913

Britain passed the Mental Deficiency Act, “but without enforced sterilization included. Instead, it ensured that people deemed undesirable by their categorization of being idiots, feeble-minded or moral imbeciles would be separated and isolated from society under the auspices of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency. Only three votes were cast against the bill. It stood as law until 1959” (Rutherford, 86).