The feeble-minded child and adult : a report on an investigation of the physical and mental condition of 50,000 school children, with suggestions for the better education and care of the feeble-minded children and adults / by a special committee of the Council of the Charity Organisation Society.
- Family Welfare Association (Great Britain)
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The feeble-minded child and adult : a report on an investigation of the physical and mental condition of 50,000 school children, with suggestions for the better education and care of the feeble-minded children and adults / by a special committee of the Council of the Charity Organisation Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![RECOMMENDATIONS IN REGARD TO THE FEEBLE-MINDED “ YOUNG PERSON ” AND ADULT. We append recommendations to this part of our report: 16. That, in conjunction with other societies, the Council of the Charity Organisation Society do its utmost to encourage the formation of small homes as schools or training homes for “ young persons,” and as permanent homes for the occupation and over- sight of adults of feeble mind. 17. That these homes he established and in part supported by voluntary contributions, and by payments for individual cases by [school authorities or] Poor Law guardians, or charitable societies and persons, and by the proceeds of laundry and other industrial work. 18. That 30 and 31 Viet. cap. 106 sec. 21 (1867) be extended so as to enable the local administrators of poor relief, or Poor Law guardians to provide for the reception, maintenance, and instruction of any pauper, who, being an adult, or a young person who has passed the legal age of education [see above, No. 10 (3), p. 99], is feeble-minded, lame, deformed, or epileptic in any hospital or institution established for the re- ception of persons suffering from such infirmities.1 1 The Act is now limited to the blind and the deaf and dumb.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28077994_0171.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
