The following tables are excerpted from a report prepared by the Eugenics Board in North Carolina. Data from these tables help illustrate North Carolina's history and relationship with the practice of eugenics. 

Table 1

Number of cases presented at each meeting of the Eugenics Board and number of operations ordered under the 1933 law

 

New cases

Cases carried over from previous meeting

Operations ordered
 

236

  

231

October 21, 1933

3

  

3

November 15

1

  

1

December 13

9

  

9

January 19, 1934

6

  

5

February 21

4

1

5

March 21

4

  

4

April 20

5

  

5

May 23

6

  

6

June 27

1

  

1

July 20

6

  

6

August 29

7

  

4

September 19

6

  

6

October 19

18

3

21

November 21

22

  

21

December 19

12

  

12

January 18, 1935

14

  

13

February 20

12

1

12

March 20

19

  

19

April 19

34

  

34

May 22

22

  

20

June 19

25

  

24

Table 2

Distribution of sterilization cases with reference to mental defect, origin of petition and marital status to June 30, 1935

Mental defect as shown in petition for sterilization

Origin of petition

Total

Marital status

Non-inst.

Co. Inst.

State Inst.

Married

Single

Widowed or divorced

Total

68

15

140

223

53

166

4

1. Cerebral syphilis with mental deficiency

    

1

1

  

1

  

2. Congenital cerebral syphilis

    

1

1

1

    

3. Dementia praecox

    

22

22

13

9

  

4. Manic depressive psychosis

    

12

12

8

4

  

5. Psychosis with cerebral syphilis

    

1

1

1

    

6. Psychosis with constitutional inferiority

    

1

1

  

1

  

7. Psychosis with epidemic encephalitis

    

1

1

  

1

  

8. Psychosis with hereditary syphilis

    

1

1

  

1

  

9. Psychosis with mental deficiency

1

  

16

17

4

13

  

10. Psychosis with syphilis

    

1

1

1

    

11. Psychosis undiagnosed

    

2

2

1

1

  

12. Epilepsy

    

40

40

7

32

1

13. Epilepsy with mental deficiency

1

2

13

16

3

12

1

14. Epilepsy with psychosis

    

2

2

1

1

  

15. Feeble-mindedness

66

13

26

105

13

90

2

Table 3

Sterilization operations with reference to type of operation and race, June 30, 1935

Type of operation

White

Negro

Total

Total

184

39

223

Vasectomy

10

8

18

Castration

6

20

26

Salpingectomy

157

10

167

Overiectomy

11

1

122

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Eugenical sterilization in North Carolina. A brief survey of the growth of eugenical sterilization and a report on the work of the Eugenics board of North Carolina through June 30, 1935.

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Eugenical sterilization in North Carolina. A brief survey of the growth of eugenical sterilization and a report on the work of the Eugenics board of North Carolina through June 30, 1935. From NCpedia. State Library of NC. 2009. https://www.ncanchor.org/anchor/primary-source-records.