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The Mental Defective
The authors of this work, who are on the staff of Stoke Park Colony, Stapleton, Bristol, England, were asked by several persons to epitomize something of the real achievements in the recent study of mental deficiency and the basis of this condition in the underdevelopment of the nervous system. The book, as written, is addressed to the medical man, and also to the general reader. It is not writ...
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admitting patients to the Royal Western Counties Hospital. In December 1957 there were 574 persons ascertained as mentally defective under the English Mental Deficiency Acts and under statutory supervision or guardianship. These patients were scattered in their own homes throughout Cornwall, and were visited and reported upon at quarterly or more frequent intervals by county social workers. The...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1932
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.22.8.884-a