Mentally-deficient children : their treatment and training / by G.E. Shuttleworth and W.A. Potts.

Date:
1910
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Credit: Mentally-deficient children : their treatment and training / by G.E. Shuttleworth and W.A. Potts. 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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    Rome ; the Western Pennsylvania State Institution for Feeble-minded Youths at Polk ; the Pennsylvania (Custodial) State Institution for Feeble-minded and Epileptics at Spring City ; the Rhode Island School at Slocums ; the South Dakota Northern Hospital at Redfield ; the Washington State Institution at Medical Lake ; and the Wisconsin Home at Chippewa Falls. It would appear that special resident accom- modation is thus afforded from public sources for over 18,000 cases, as compared with 8,492 in 1898. In our own country, unfortunately, no such rate of progress can be reported. The only material addi- tion during the twelve years to the specific accommo- dation for imbecile children in rate-supported asylums is the opening, in 1904, of a separate block for ninety such cases at the East Sussex Asylum at Hellingly; so that, besides the Institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, which provide for upwards of 1,000 children at Darenth and Tooting Bee, as well as for about 5,000 adult imbeciles and harmless lunatics there and elsewhere, the Poor-Law provision in the way of separate wards and annexes to county asylums in England and Wales comprises not more than about 600 beds, in connection with the county asylums at Northampton, Wandsworth (Middlesex), Fareham (Hants), Chatham (Kent), Durham, Win wick (Lanca- shire), Burntwood (Staffs) and the Birmingham City Asylum at Rubery Hill. The six registered “ idiot establishments ”—the Earlswood and Royal Albert Asylums, the Western Counties, Eastern Counties, and Midland Counties Asylums, and the Magdalen Hospital School at Bath^—all charitable foundations— afford accommodation for an aggregate of about 1,900. We may consequently set down the aggregate pro- vision in England and Wales for imbecile children