The Mentally Defective Twin

Prisons and the Mentally Defective

Deficiency Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, 23 persons found to be mentally defective were removed from prison to Certified Institutions. In the years 1924-27, the average annual number of prisoners certified as M.D. was 257; in the years 1928-34, the annual average was 251; the amended definitions in the M.D. Act of 1927 appear therefore to have little practical effect, so far as this particul...

The Mentally Defective and the Poor Law

followed by a Conference on the Mentally Defective and the Poor Law, which was well attended by representatives of Boards of Guardians. The speeches made dealt chiefly with the work that Boaids of Guardians are doing in providing training and occupation for defectives under their care, and with the difficulties that are created by the failure of so many Local Authorities to carry out their duti...

The Mentally Defective Child at Home

Work among the Mentally Defective in Switzerland

By Gertrud Lortscher. Translated by W. E. Houghton. Who is mentally defective? The idea of mental deficiency is a wide one, involvingmuch discussion. Psychologists vary in their conception of its boundaries. I am not going to discuss this question, but rather the place in social life of him who is considered mentally defective. " He is abnormal, who, on account of a deviation in his intellectua...

Mentally Defective Children with Additional Handicaps

a special teacher was engaged for them on three afternoons a week for a period of three months. The group consisted of five children with cerebral palsy (two from rhesus incompatibility) of whom three had gross deafness and no speech, one had no deafness but very little speech, which was of poor quality and almost unintelligible; the fifth was normal in hearing and had some speech but could not...