| Show MENTAL deficiency bv E G gowan feeblemindedness Feeble mindedness sham has b been an defined as A state of mental defect from birth or from an 0 early age 91 ca due to io complete cerebral brain development in consequence fon sequence of which the person affected is 13 unable to perform hia duties ma as a member r of society in the position of life to which lie a I 1 ial tor born this definition has been interpreted to mean those who are incapable of competing on equal terms term in the struggle for existence tie ides idea Is 19 that hat those who do not succeed might do so if they would but it is highly probable that they are actually actually incapable the number of those who are mentally dell lent has haa been variously estimated the 1890 census brought out the fact in answer to the question are their any idiots or imbecile imbe ciles in you your family 1710 17 10 9 that one in each of population was in this marked degree defective this question of course would bring out information concerning those only in most cases who were so defective defee kive that the fact could not be e concealed it js is generally held and conceded by students of the so subject abject that at least one in each three hundred of the population wilt will be found to bf be feebleminded feeble minded them chere are am careful investigators who place the number much higher but ut if we accept this thia ratio we have her lere in bah with a total popola of the astonishing ugh high number be of at 1500 people who sm are incapable of properly caring for themselves as indicated in our de anition teachers and parents alike are concerned with the welfare of the feeble feebleminded minded and should know that we have a fairly accurate met rod of detecting this mental defect or course idiots and low grade ind im beetles announce by their very ap fearence pe arence that they are defective wt but the timber higher grades require the application of some kind of kamur ing scale of intelligence because the only other way the one we have used in the past that is permitting these be defectives defeen ves to try themselves out at in actual life is not only waste ful it is cruel and unfair anyone may get the portius tests by send bend ing 25 cents to the training school vineland Vt neland new jev jersey these tests test are well worked out and constitute a scale fur measuring the intelli hence sea that is better probably than simon binet bi net sedie scale which has haa been a au extensively used tt for this pa pur apse p is entry teacher should have this luablia booklet and there la Is no why pats pa enta ts should not al the elves on such an im subject |
