. Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded. seasons; exercised its utmost powers to rehabilitate the family, Mental Defer!ice* in Virginia 53 and to reform the alcoholic and shiftless father, and to aid and direct thechildren and childrens children. Three of the six children born, died ininfancy, the other three were feeble-minded. One of the girls
. Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded. seasons; exercised its utmost powers to rehabilitate the family, Mental Defer!ice* in Virginia 53 and to reform the alcoholic and shiftless father, and to aid and direct thechildren and childrens children. Three of the six children born, died ininfancy, the other three were feeble-minded. One of the girls was a prosti-tute, and as a result of an illegal union gave birth to a diseased child whichsoon died. The other girl married a man of unknown mentality and tothem were born two feeble-minded children. One child, a son, is now beingsupported by the taxpayer in an institution, and the other, a daughter, ismarried and has a little feeble-minded girl. All of these persons werebrought under the influence of organized charities. Organized charitiesspent money; organized charities attempted to rehabilitate and reform;organized charities failed. Why? The only place the feeble-minded canbe successfully handled is in a colony for the feeble-minded. [NJ Of «<(«-• o Ek A Lk * * in ? CHART 93. POUR GENERATIONS CONSTANTLY HELPED BY ORGANIZED CHARITIES. James Z., a feeble-minded epileptic, came from the country to one of ourVirginia cities. He secured a job as day laborer. He married a good-lookingfeeble-minded girl; they raised a family. James had fits. As a consequencehis various employers used to lay him off. He would be out of work formonths. His family had to live, and he soon learned that if he did not sup-port them, organized charities would. Sometimes James got drunk, and occa-sionally he would beat his wife. Neighbors said that she was unfaithful, andas they had a good many neighbors, being forced by irate landlords to moveoften for failure to pay rent, it was finally de
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