Care of the Feeble-Minded and Insane in Texas, Vol. 16

Excerpt from Care of the Feeble-Minded and Insane in Texas, Vol. 16: November 5, 1914 Modern institutions and colonies; The call from Texas; Letter to Prof. Potts; Can we educate?; Forms of training; Syracuse school for feeble-minded; Types needing segregation; Letter to Hon. I. B. Reeves, Sherman; Two other cases; English Royal Commission's report; Letchworth Colony, New York; Farming in Illinois; Templeton, Mass., colony; Legal enactment and State Policy; Principles of the Illinois' Charity Law; Idiots' Act of 1886, England; Findings of the Royal Commission; States having no institutions; Legislative enactment in Texas; Conclusions; "The Burden of the Feeble-Minded"; Methods of prevention - Eugenics; Authorized investigating agencies; The Insane; Importance of general information; Nature of insanity; Definition; General symptoms; Two specific disease pictures; Early signs of nervous weakness; Cause of insanity; Heredity; Physical ill-health; Worry; Prevalence on insanity; The United Sates; In Texas; State policy toward the insane; Haphazard policies; Regarded as diseased; Prevention About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.