The imbecile and their training / Society for the Education of Imbecile Children in Scotland.

Date:
1861
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The imbecile and their training / Society for the Education of Imbecile Children in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Parent Society/' has been organized in Edinburgh, and all means are being re¬ sorted to for the purpose of bringing the subject prominently before the mind of the Scottish public. The ladies of com¬ mittee are having districts throughout Edinburgh allotted to them, in which to collect; and by means of pulpit intima¬ tions, the press, and private appeals, it is earnestly trusted that this great and good object will he accomplished, and that speedily. Bis dat qui cito dat. Various little incidents have at the outset of the work occurred, of an en¬ couraging nature—such as the gift, by a carpenter interested in the scheme, of twenty very neat collecting-boxes, and the kind liberality of a printer, who gratuitously printed for the society 10,000 copies of an “ Appeal lately issued—a donation valued at not less