. How the uncared-for epileptic fares in Illinois; colony care the remedy; a plea for immediate legislative action; how you can help. was a poor woman, also an epileptic, living in a room onthe top floor of a tenement. She could barely eke out an ex-istence because it was difficult for her to get employment. Butshe sympathized with the child and took her in. The case wasbrought to the Ju^•enile Court only when both were nearlystarved. Thirty-tJtird Senatorial District. E. H. has been an epileptic all his life. The disease wasmild at first, but nothing was done for him and he has steadilydeclin
. How the uncared-for epileptic fares in Illinois; colony care the remedy; a plea for immediate legislative action; how you can help. was a poor woman, also an epileptic, living in a room onthe top floor of a tenement. She could barely eke out an ex-istence because it was difficult for her to get employment. Butshe sympathized with the child and took her in. The case wasbrought to the Ju^•enile Court only when both were nearlystarved. Thirty-tJtird Senatorial District. E. H. has been an epileptic all his life. The disease wasmild at first, but nothing was done for him and he has steadilydeclined. He was the cause of much trouble in the town. Al-though desirous of working he has never been able to hold asteady job. Finally, at the age of twenty-fi\e, he was sent to aninsane asylum. A. S., twenty-nine years of age, cannot get work, owing tothe severity and frequency of attacks. He has injured himself anumber of times in his seizures. A. K., twenty-one years of age. Attacks began when he wassixteen. He is a laborer, but cannot hold a job. and is now en-tirelv dependent upon a widowed sister who has fi\e children. 19. >cooo tn5 V >> 0 PICKED UP ABOUT THE STATE. In one of the institutions of the state is a high school teach-er who came from the First Senatorial District. She is com-pletely incapacitated from accepting any position. In the Sixteenth Senatorial District is a man of has been an epileptic practically all his life. He lives withan aged mother, upon whom he entirely depends. His life isentirelv useless. If he were in a colony he could be useful mostof the time. Among the problems in the Eighteenth Senatorial Districtis a young fellow of nineteen, without occupation. He had apublic school education, and could be self-supporting if super-vised. Another lad of nineteen, untrained, without employment,was treated in a hospital for a number of years as a charitypatient. He has been in the insane asylum. The family ispoor, the stepfather is a
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