FAMILY CARE OF THE INSANE AND FEEBLE-MINDED

Gardening and the Feeble-Minded

as the outdoor activities of mental defectives in institutions had previously been limited to elementary jobs, such as sweeping the paths, and generally acting as labourers to the staff engaged on the ornamental gardens. It was recognised that, for many years, patients in large mental institutions and colonies had been employed on farms, pig feeding, etc.; some of them had been taught to milk c...

The Feeble-Minded

Industries for the Feeble-Minded

The Memory of the Feeble-Minded

Some modern writers on mental deficiency regard the feeble-minded as a class that has some one mental defect in common, varying in degree only. This simple conception is perhaps due to the tendency of late years to emphasise the quantitative aspect of mental deficiency and to neglect qualitative distinctions. But teachers, psychologists, and medical officers, who deal with the practical problem...

The Hostel Method for Feeble-Minded Young Men and Women

time, although many large Certified Institutions sent some of their highergrade patients out to work on leave of absence, and one or two Institutions had even set apart special buildings for the accommodation of such patients, there was, I believe, no other Institution run solely as a Hostel, quite independently of any parent Institution. Eagle House was started as an experiment. It draws its i...