 At the time, many of the children who were sterilized were not even aware of what the physicians had done to them.This was performed under the auspices of the Brandon School of the Feeble-Minded, and the Vermont Reform School.It was documented in the 1911 "Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder's Association to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means for Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the Human Population."