Word: mongoloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higdon of Teaneck, N.J. Before a Canadian meeting of obstetricians and gynecologists, he reported that studies of 21,000 mothers indicate that childbirth presents only slightly greater risks to a woman of 40 than to one of 20. The older women bore only a slightly higher percentage of Mongoloid children, suffered no more difficult deliveries, had an average mortality rate...
...Mongolism, however, the commonest single cause of mental retardation in infants, there is no cure. The doctors can only hope that careful studies will give them insight into its causes. In the meantime, they can treat many of its physical symptoms. Physicians use antibiotics to combat the susceptibility of Mongoloids to infections. Surgeons may correct heart conditions, the chief cause of debility and death. In 1900, Mongoloids rarely lived beyond infancy. A Mongoloid born in 1956 may expect to reach 20 years...
Advice for Parents. The clinic's advice to parents of Mongoloid children: even though the child will eventually be committed to an institution, keep him in the home as long as possible. In early years, Mongoloids are happy, playful and easily manageable. It is often the parents who need treatment. As a "parent counselor," Dr. Koch has to deal with marital tensions. "The problem is that these women don't want to have children again, and it often causes sexual incompatibility. I urge them to have children. It takes their guilt feelings away...
Ingalls said he drew his conclusion in part from recent studies he had made with associates at the Health School on a group of mothers of mongoloid babies. In the past 15 years many scientists have also shown that certain infant deformities were the result of German measles, respiratory accidents, and other non-genetic physical injuries to pregnant mothers, Ingalls pointed...
Helen Bray feels that she is getting reward enough when a mongoloid child reaches out his hand for her to touch, or another, usually inert, nods his head to her. But last week, 37-year-old Helen Bray got a special reward. Flanked by her husband, son and small daughter, she stood in the hospital's dining room to receive $500 given by the National Association for Mental Health to the "aide of the year to the mentally retarded...