STUDIES OF SOME MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS IN MENTAL DEFECTIVES

Some Points on the Care and Treatment of Mental Defectives

Sterilization of Mental Defectives

1. THAT there should not at present be any revision or re-issue of the pamphlet on Sterilisation (now out of print) issued by the Association in 1923, and containing the conclusions arrived at by the Medical Committee, the Medical Committee in general being in agreement with the views expressed in the pamphlet dealing with the same subject, written by Dr. Tredgold and published by the Associati...

Sterilisation of Mental Defectives

Some months ago, the N.A.M.H. sent a questionnaire on this subject to medical superintendents of Mental Deficiency Institutions in the United States. Amongst the replies received was one of special interest from Dr. Neil Dayton, who is Superintendent of the Mansfield State Training School, Connecticut, and a prominent member of the American Association on Mental Deficiency. His views and those ...

Sterilisation of Mental Defectives

Uear Sir, In your Summer issue you invited correspondence "on this highly controversial subject." As basic issues may vary in different geographical locations in so vast a country as the United States, I submit the following as from the area known here as our "far-West." Your questions are answered in accordance with my experience as Superintendent and Medical Director of a State Institution fo...

Denmark's Care of Mental Defectives

I have known Dr. Wildenskov for many years, and I have read the article on his magnificent Institution in Denmark with the greatest benefit and interest. In all essentials I agree with nearly everything he says. I have the highest admiration for his work and congratulate him very sincerely on his achievement, but there are two quite small points in the article which seem to me give a somewhat i...