THE RECOGNITION AND TRAINING OF CONGENITAL MENTAL DEFECTIVES

Music in the Training of Mental Defectives

The Education and Training of Mental Defectives at Darenth

So much interest has been shown by visitors from abroad as well as from this country in the system of training at this hospital that it has been suggested that what is done here should be more widely known. Darenth Park is just as different from the average journalists' or lay person's ideas of a mental hospital as are the obverse and reverse of any other golden coin of the realm. It is proud o...

The Nursing of Mental Defectives

Mental Defectives, though it is a pity that the author did not include the legal definitions of mental deficiency as well as the modified explanatory ones.

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 ...