. Popular science monthly. lesson should be kept in mind in considering the fact that the alienpopulation of the United States is furnishing considerably more thanits proportionate number of feebleminded and insane persons. More accurate statistics are available for New York state than else-where in the country. But while New York is chiefly concerned withthe problem of the alien insane and mentally defective, every otherstate has or will have the same problem in varying degree. It isauthentically reported that about one per cent, of the school populationof New York City, or about 7,00
. Popular science monthly. lesson should be kept in mind in considering the fact that the alienpopulation of the United States is furnishing considerably more thanits proportionate number of feebleminded and insane persons. More accurate statistics are available for New York state than else-where in the country. But while New York is chiefly concerned withthe problem of the alien insane and mentally defective, every otherstate has or will have the same problem in varying degree. It isauthentically reported that about one per cent, of the school populationof New York City, or about 7,000 children, are distinctly addition to these is an equal number of idiots and imbeciles, and thelarge class of morally defective children and border-line types. Censusstatistics show that the parents of 30 per cent, of the feeble-mindedchildren in the country at large are aliens or naturalized citizens. Inthe first line of defence and prevention lies in a rigid primary exam- 326 TEE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTELY.
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