. The conservation of the child; a manual of clinical psychology, presenting the examination and treatment of backward children . Profile and side view of aclenoidcase. A typical aileiioid case. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC 67 extensive though more intensive need of exact and care-ful diagnosis of mental deficiency. Though they are lessprevalent than backwardness from curable physical de-fects, imbecility and idiocy are present to an almostastounding degree in America. A sinister indication oftheir real extent is given in the Commissioner of Educa-tions Report for 1909 in the statistics for state


. The conservation of the child; a manual of clinical psychology, presenting the examination and treatment of backward children . Profile and side view of aclenoidcase. A typical aileiioid case. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC 67 extensive though more intensive need of exact and care-ful diagnosis of mental deficiency. Though they are lessprevalent than backwardness from curable physical de-fects, imbecility and idiocy are present to an almostastounding degree in America. A sinister indication oftheir real extent is given in the Commissioner of Educa-tions Report for 1909 in the statistics for state and privateinstitutions, from which the following paragraph is taken:Tables 185, 186, and 187 summarize the statistics ofthe 26 state schools and the 17 private schools for thefeeble-minded. The state institutions had , In America 17,549 mmates, only 10,679 bemg reported m aschool or kindergarten. The 17 private institutions had927 inmates, the number in school or kindergarten being424. Tables 188 and 189 give in detail the statistics ofpublic and private schools for the feeble-minded. These figures, bad as they are, do not


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