. Who is insane? . finitely modified by expert care. THE result is that no State institution, devotedto the care and treatment of these classes, isso organized and conducted as to be thoroughlycurative in its methods. They are, in fact, cus-todial. In their an-State Institutions nual reports they Not Thoroughly Curative never call special attention to the in-creasingly large percentage successfully taught,cured, reformed, and discharged. They do notappear before the Legislatures asking appropri-ations for better facilities for teaching the idiot,curing the insane, and reforming the criminal,us
. Who is insane? . finitely modified by expert care. THE result is that no State institution, devotedto the care and treatment of these classes, isso organized and conducted as to be thoroughlycurative in its methods. They are, in fact, cus-todial. In their an-State Institutions nual reports they Not Thoroughly Curative never call special attention to the in-creasingly large percentage successfully taught,cured, reformed, and discharged. They do notappear before the Legislatures asking appropri-ations for better facilities for teaching the idiot,curing the insane, and reforming the criminal,using as an argument the seventy-five per cent,taught, cured, and reformed the past year, andpromising, with improved facilities, to raise thep ^rcentage tb ninety-five per cent. On the con-trary, the constant demand upon the State is formore buildings to accommodate the ever-in-creasing number to be added to the fixed popu-lation of these institutions. XXI Teach the Idiot and Feeble-Minded Self-Care AND SeLF-SuPPORT. XXI Teach the Idiot and Feeble-Minded Self-CareAND Self-Support IHAT shall we do with the idiotand the feeble-minded? Teachthem self-care and can they be taught? Thefollowing incident is an answerto that question. On a brightsummer day in the early sixtiesI took advantage of a leisure hour or two inSyracuse to visit that anomaly among the char-itable institutions of the State ofEducating New York, viz., a school for the in-Idiots struction of idiots. The very pur-pose of the institution—the educa-tion of idiots—seemed then to be an unanswer-able argument against its existence. Its found-er. Dr. Hervey B. Wilbur, had encountered greatopposition on this very ground. No one believedit possible to teach idiots sufficiently to makethe creation of an institution for that purposejustifiable by the Legislature. The institutionfinally took the apparently more appropriate 239 240 WHO IS INSANE? title, The Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded. While crossing
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