Word: feeblemindedness
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The Marxian remedy for poverty is a more equable distribution of the world's goods. But, the Neo-Malthusian replies, the least capable have the largest families. It is practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures...
The U. S. Census Bureau has announced the following figures representing a summary of the number of mentally diseased, feebleminded and epileptic persons in 526 hospitals for mental disease, 84 psychopathic wards of general hospitals, 136 homes for the feebleminded and 32 institutions for epileptics:
Institutions for feebleminded 43,636
Mental Deficiency. Conditions of mental retardation, delinquency, dwarfism, gigantism and other defects, were definitely improved by glandular therapy under the oversight of Dr. Burtis B. Breese, Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, and Dr. Louis Lurie, Director of the Psychopathic Institute of the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati. Eight children...
The Subnormal Child", by Dr. W. E. Fernald Hon. '13, Superintendent of the Massachusetts School for the Feebleminded at Waverley.