Wielandt's subnormality criterion and linear groups

Crime and Mental Subnormality

Subnormality Hostels

a neat alternative label, but at least "longstay hostel" is accurate and not, so far anyway, an emotionally-charged term. The suggestion that this type of hostel should be administered by the local authority welfare department overlooks the responsibilities placed on local health authorities by the Mental Health Act, and in practice the services for the mentally retarded already run by the heal...

Subnormality Hostel

Subnormality Hostels

standing about hostels for the subnormal. A hospital's functions are: observation, special examination, treatment (including training) and nursing care. But subnormality hospitals now take well-behaved patients, whose immediate problem is solely that they have been left destitute, through the death or incapacity of parents or guardians. Neither their medical condition nor conduct really warrant...

Mental Subnormality—Whose Baby?

Firstly, I should make it clear that the use of the word "Baby", in the title of this paper, refers to mental, not chronological, age. In other words, I am not restricting myself only to a consideration of mentally subnormal children. Nevertheless, it has some meta-phorical meaning in so far as we are discussing a problem whose unpopular aspects are frequently apt to be bounced on to someone el...