A Social Club for Mental Defectives

Community Schemes for the Social Control of Mental Defectives

Extra-Institutional Care of Mental Defectives in New York State, U.S.A.

No State should consider itself either humane, or efficient from a business point of view, which continues to support in idleness any of its dependents (not excluding those physically or mentally handicapped), who might, under proper training and supervision, become at least partially self-supporting. But as a rule it is not until an intolerable weight of taxes drives a state into new methods o...

The Work of Local Voluntary Associations and Possible Future Developments

almost directly after the Mental Deficiency Act came into force in 1914. One of their main objects was the co-ordination of all public and voluntary work undertaken for defectives in their own homes, throughout the area, covered by a Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act, i.e., a County or County Borough. The Constitution of these Associations varies according to Local conditions but ...

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.

Moral Defectives

in consequence of a defect of their minds. In other words they are persons whose misconduct is not due to what is generally known as " badness," but to what, in the broad sense, may be comprehended within the term "madness." It is obvious that such a condition is one of extreme importance, and experience has shewn that it is also attended with very great difficulties. Indeed it is not too much ...