State care of the feeble-minded / by Martin W. Barr.

  • Barr, Martin W., 1860-1938.
Date:
1903
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Credit: State care of the feeble-minded / by Martin W. Barr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > Reprinted from the Neiv York Medical Journal for June 27. STATE CARE OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED * By martin W. BARR, M. D„ ELWYN, PA., CHIEF PHYSICIAN TO THE PENNSYLVANIA TRAINING SCHOOL FOR FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. Before entering upon the topic assigned me, I must thank you for the pleasure of meeting this association, and also for the privilege—most highly esteemed—of uniting in a work preeminently worthy of a State, the record of which is that of a builder and defender of homes. Of the three classes demanding care and protec- tion from the State—the insane, the defective, and the criminal—the first and last have for obvious reasons received earliest attention, and of the sec- ond, the blind and deaf mute have appealed most powerfully to the sympathies of the humane. Men- tal defectives have, therefore, been the last to be considered. Very inadequate provision has been made for them in the county homes, in asylums for the insane—with whom they are too often con- founded—in institutions for the blind and deaf mute, whose methods in no wise meet their needs; or, sadder still, as innocent victims of neglect, they wander at large, the tools and agents of the vicious. * Read before the Virpnia Conference of Charities and Correc- tion, Richmond, Va., February ii, 1903. Copyright, 1903, ay A. R. Klliott Publishing Company.