The High Grade Mental Defective

A PARTICULARLY useful work for the educable mentally defective boy is being done at the Besford Court Catholic Home, Worcestershire, under the administration of Monsignor Newsome. The home is intended for the high-grade "moron," who requires not only< special teaching and training, but also preliminary, concurrent and continuous hospital treatment. For such a child, as the Annual Report points out, the ordinary elementary school education is of no value and the training in special day schools very little better. The teaching given for a few hours during the day at the best is restricted to a certain measure of success in imparting the knowledge of the