Mental defectives in Virginia- (1915) (14770933211)

Identifier: mentaldefective00virg (find matches)
Title: Mental defectives in Virginia:
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Board of charities and corrections. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (n.p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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tional cases after the public schools have exhausted their means ofhelping them. By pursuing such a policy, many wards of the State would be trained tobecome self-supporting in a community where they are not brought incompetition with the normal individual. Many of these people are passingthrough the hands of teachers to-day without their actual mental abilityever being known. The menace of the feeble-minded reproducing themselveswould be cut off at its source. msr< iinniiii 0F C0NGRESS 0 027 331 344 8
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Mental Defectives in Virginia A SPECIAL REPORT /^32> OF THE State Board of Chanties and Corrections TO THE General Assembly of Nineteen Sixteen ON WEAK-MINDEDNESS in the STATE OF VIRGINIA Together with a Plan for Training, Segregation andPrevention of the Procreation of the Feeble-minded RICHMOND: DAVIS BOTTOM, SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC PRINTING1915 Table of Contents Letter of Transmittal to the Governor of Virginia 3-7 I. General Introduction ..., 8-11 II. Report of Visit to Institutions . 12-17 III. The Relation of Heredity to Feeble-Mindedness 18-22 IV. The Relation of Feeble-Mindedness to Insanity 23-30 V. The Relation of Feeble-Mindedness to Epilepsy 31-38 VI. The Relation of FeeblehMindedness to Pauperism 39-58 VII. The Relation of Feeble-JMindedness to Juvenile Delin-quency f 59-64 VIII. The Relation of Feeble-Mindedness to Prostitution.- 65-71 IX. The Relation of Feeble-MinIdedness to Crime and Drunk-enness 72-109 X. Summary 110-112 XI. A Plan for the Training, Segregation andmentaldefective00virg