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Show FORMING REPORT ON FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS t - State Commission Will Submit Sub-mit Results of Year's Work to Governor. The commission on feeble-minded ness which was authorized by the last legislature, legis-lature, and which has been making a survey sur-vey of feeble-minded persons in the state, is drawing its work to a close and It is expected that the report will be compiled and placed in the hands ot the governor for transmission to the legislature legisla-ture about January 1. Dr. D. II. Calder, formerly in charge of the Utah State Mental hospital and who is a member of the commission, hu.s returned re-turned from California lo lake part In the compilation of the report. Dr. Calder Cal-der who was In California for his health, reports that it is greatly Improved. During his slay in California the corn-mission corn-mission there, which is making a similar investigation in feeble-minded ness. called upon Dr. Calder for suggestions In their work, since the Utah commission lias proceeded much farther in lis investigation investiga-tion of the problem. The California commission com-mission complimented Dr. Calder hlgnis' upon the progresslveness ot the slate ot Utah, since Utah has been the pioneer of the west in making such a complete and advanced investigation of feeblemindedness. feeble-mindedness. . , , . "There are nineteen states which have as yet made no provision for the care of the feeble-minded. Fourteen years ago Utah recognized the danger to society so-ciety from the feeble-minded and tried in a small wav to act upon the problem by providing a. department In the Provo hospital hos-pital which would care for a few of the patients of the state." said Dr. Calder. "Our last legislature provided for tins complete investigation, which is being conducted bv workers skilled in the problem prob-lem and I have no doubt that our next legislature will make adequate provision for these patients of the state. In what form this will be and where the care will he provided will be left to the discretion of the legislature." Miss Sadie Mvera is completing hei survev of Cache county this week and next week will take up the work in another an-other county. Miss Jane Griffiths, who is working in Utah county, will do the same. |