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"The Burden Of Feeble-Mindedness"
At least twenty-five per cent. of the inmates of our penal institutions are mentally defective and belong either to the feeble-minded or to the defective delinquent class....
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Title: "The Burden Of Feeble-Mindedness"
Creator: W.E. Fernald (author)
Date: March 1913
Format: Article
Publication: Journal of Psycho-Asthenics
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.17, no.3, pp.87-111
Keywords: Charles B. Davenport; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Crime; Demographics; Disease; Doctors; Eugenics; Family; Feeblemindedness; Government; Health & Medicine; Heredity; Ideologies; Institutions; Jurisprudence; Labor; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Marriage; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Policy; Poverty; Professional Associations; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Reproduction; Sexuality; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Venereal Disease; W.E. Fernald; Work
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