Gardening and the Feeble-Minded
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as the outdoor activities of mental defectives in institutions had previously been limited to elementary jobs, such as sweeping the paths, and generally acting as labourers to the staff engaged on the ornamental gardens. It was recognised that, for many years, patients in large mental institutions and colonies had been employed on farms, pig feeding, etc.; some of them had been taught to milk cows, and general dairy work. We planned something more ambitious. The patients, ranging from 14 to 40 years of age, came here mainly from agricultural districts, and it was thought that, with the help of two skilled gardening instructors, we might attempt not only to supply our own requirements of bedding plants, flowers, and certain fruit, but also to compete with
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