Social problems, a study of present-day social conditions . ixteen thousand in almshouses, about five thousandin hospitals for the insane, and about twentj^-six thousandin prisons and reformatories.^ Manifestly neither theprison nor the reformatory, neither the hospital for theinsane nor the almshouse, is the place for the about one tenth of the feeble-minded are cared for inproper institutions.^ It was not until the year 1837 that we had the realbeginning of the systematic rational training of mentaldefectives, which has gone on from that day to this. Beforethis time there
Social problems, a study of present-day social conditions . ixteen thousand in almshouses, about five thousandin hospitals for the insane, and about twentj^-six thousandin prisons and reformatories.^ Manifestly neither theprison nor the reformatory, neither the hospital for theinsane nor the almshouse, is the place for the about one tenth of the feeble-minded are cared for inproper institutions.^ It was not until the year 1837 that we had the realbeginning of the systematic rational training of mentaldefectives, which has gone on from that day to this. Beforethis time there had been two or three unsuccessful attemptsto establish schools for the training of the feeble-minded, andin 1835 the first institution for the care of idiots (not for theireducation) was established in Germany. The name thatstands out most prominently in connection ^vith the workfor the feeble-minded is that of Edouard Seguin of France,liecausc he was the founder of the first school for this classof defectives, and because of the impetus which he gave to. Kindergarten Class for Mental Defectives, Randalls Island.
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