Feeblemindedness in children of school-age / by C. Paget Lapage ; with an appendix on treatment and training by Mary Dendy.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Feeblemindedness in children of school-age / by C. Paget Lapage ; with an appendix on treatment and training by Mary Dendy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Introductory and Statistical. History. In 1904 it was thought necessary to appoint a Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feebleminded. This fact may be regarded as the culmination of the efforts that had been going on in various quarters to promote the welfare of these unfortunate individuals. The pioneer work of Seguin, Itard, Howe, Wilbur and others with regard to the treatment and care of “idiots” as distinguished from “ lunatics ” has been described in other text-books, and we shall deal here chiefly with the history of the movement in England. In the past the words “lunatic” and “idiot” have stood for two divisions of mentally deficient persons, the one implying “disorder of the mind in a person who has been in possession of his faculties,” and the other “a state of mental incapacity, which has been present from birth or from an early age.” The Lunacy Acts still include under their jurisdiction both lunatics and idiots, but the Idiots Act of 1886 deals with idiots apart from lunatics, and by the use of the word imbeciles, as referring to mental defect of a lesser degree than idiocy, recognises a sub-class of the B
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