The epileptic and crippled child and adult : A report on the present condition of these classes of afflicted persons, with suggestions for their better education and employment.
- Family Welfare Association (Great Britain)
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The epileptic and crippled child and adult : A report on the present condition of these classes of afflicted persons, with suggestions for their better education and employment. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![but at the same time requiring constant care and supervision.” (2) “ A gii’l of wea]^ mind, who, if left to herself, will go wrong. She is 16 or 17, and has been con- ducting herself very well in a training home for servants for nearly 18 months, but an attack of influenza temporarily upset her brain, and has lel^t her subject to fits of temper and loss of moral control. Kind, strict supervision is required.” These cases mark the group. ^ But the demand for help in cases of epilepsy is equally strong. The following are notes from two out of several letters:— (1) “ A young man, over 20 years of age, has been an incurable epileptic ever since an accident when he was 11 years old. No institution will receive him. The only place offered seems to be a lunatic asylum, and as the lad is quite sane, it would be a cruelty to send him there. He is tall and strongly built, and it is really not safe to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28065773_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
