Mental and physical deviations of children : report of the committee consisting of Sir Douglas Galton (Chairman), Dr. Francis Warner (Secretary), Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson and Dr. Wilberforce Smith.

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[1895?]
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Credit: Mental and physical deviations of children : report of the committee consisting of Sir Douglas Galton (Chairman), Dr. Francis Warner (Secretary), Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson and Dr. Wilberforce Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    3ection H.] %!T drifts!) Association for fl)c Advancement of Science. IPSWICH, 1895. Mental and Physical Deviations of Children.—Deport of the Committee, I consisting of Sir Douglas Galton (Chairman), Dr. Francis Warner (Secretary), Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson, and Dr. Wilberforce Smith. (Report dir awn up by the Secretary.) PPENMX I. Defects enumerated individually and in groups as distributed amongst the Nationalities and Social Classes, $a. . II. Groups of Children and their Percentage Distribution on the numbers seen and numbers noted Bie Committee, acting in conjunction with a committee appointed for be same purpose by the International Congress of Hygiene and Demo- graphy (1891), in presenting their third report are able to give a further iccount of the 50,000 children seen individually during the years 1892-94. The methods of observation and the points observed were fully de- i icribed in our first report. Analysis of the points observed in each child \1 (fords material for the arrangement of groups of cases, prepared by esta- blished actuarial processes, their distribution, and their co-relations, and i ?nables us to give results of scientific interest and importance, and also to I ?ive evidence on questions concerning the education of children and their | control by the State. S Wo proceed to give the results of research among the 8,941 cases * ’5,112, girls 3,829) of whom notes were taken as to the points in I which they were below the average in bodily or mental status. > As a step towards ascertaining the causation of defects, and the | ost probable means of removing them, we have arranged the children H 2 PAGE 4 6