Feeble-minded in Ontario : eighth report for the year 1913.

  • MacMurchy, Helen, 1862-1953.
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Feeble-minded in Ontario : eighth report for the year 1913. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Local Associations Can Help. 1. By undertaking the supervision (after-care) of defective children and adults leaving any schools, homes, or institutions, including State institutions. 2. By assisting in the provision of suitable guardians and visiting defectives under judicial guardianship. 3. By assisting in the boarding out of defectives under schemes approved of by local authorities. 4. By befriending or otherwise assisting defectives not dealt with under the Act. The work devolving on the central council and its executive will be:— 1. To form a representative central body with which the Government can communicate and confer if so desired. 2. To distribute Government and other funds. 3'. To organize the work of caring for defectives outside institutions. 4. To stimulate activities for the care and control of defectives. 5. To promote the formation of county and county borough associations. 6. To arouse public interest. Nova Scotia. The Superintendent of Education for Nova Scotia, Dr. A. H. MacKay, of Ifalifax, states in his annual report that assuming the population of that province to be 500,000 there are likely about 1,000 more or less mentally defective persons in Nova Scotia and about 100 in Halifax. The Nova Scotia League for the Care and Protection of Feeble-Minded Per- sons, founded at Halifax in 1908, continues its good work, and during the year 1912-13 some fifty local branches of the League were formed, representing all districts of the province. In every school in the Province of Nova Scotia there is a blank in the register to be filled in by the teacher and to be copied in the Annual Eeturn, indicating the number of persons who, owing to some defect of sight or hearing, or temperament or mental power, are unable or are prevented from attendance at the public school. This classification is recpiired to be supported by a statement of the address and defects of each individual, so that definite information, as far as possible, may be sent to the officials interested. Nova Scotia is now endeavoring to solve the question of the education of educable mental defectives and the care of the uneducalile inental defectives. New Beunswick. In New Brunswick the city of Moncton has had two special classes or Depart- ■ ments for Defectives, and St. John has the matter under consideration. ( The Western Provinces, The proposal was at one time made that Manitoba should provide an ins>titu- . tion for the blind, Saskatchewan for the deaf, and Alberta for the mentally de- fective, British Columbia and tbe three other Western Provinces to have the pri''|' ^ lege of sending the persons in need of care to these institutions respectively. Tins | plan was not found to be practical, but it shows at least that the case of mentally defective is being considered. a
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