. 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. ides, he usually felt badly, andoften had fits, and employers did not seem to desire men so afflicted. Afterbeing supported for some months in his unemployment, a job was securedfor him. But he didnt stick. Soon the Instructive Visiting Nurses Asso-ciation had to send another nurse and more clothes for a
. 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. ides, he usually felt badly, andoften had fits, and employers did not seem to desire men so afflicted. Afterbeing supported for some months in his unemployment, a job was securedfor him. But he didnt stick. Soon the Instructive Visiting Nurses Asso-ciation had to send another nurse and more clothes for a new baby, andonce more the Church society and the Salvation Army and Associated Chari-ties and kindred organizations came to the aid of the distressed ones. Afterthe new baby had been ushered into the world and the family seemed tobe getting along fairly well, James got another job, but he soon developedpains in his head and back, and after doctoring himself with whiskey with-out effecting a cure, the job slipped from under him. When the collectorcame around the rent money could seldom be found, and so James and hiswife and their growing family of children moved about in the squalid sec-tions of the city, constantly seeking aid of one or the other of a dozen chari-table SEVEN PERSONS WERE FOUND LIVING IN THIS HUT—2 MEN,1 WOMAN AND 4 CHILDREN OCCUPIED THE SAME BED. Recently they were found in an old stable down near the waters edgein a state of extreme destitution. It seems that a stable helper had takenpity on the family and was now sharing his bed and board with , his wife, the kindly stable man, and four children lived in the sameroom. There was a bed constructed of rough planks covered with old grainsacks. A dry goods box was used as a table, and tin cans served as cooking Mental Defectives in Virginia 55 and eating utensils. The parents and children were in rags. When visited bya social worker they were all huddled up together on the bed. The sta
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