. Mental defectives in Virginia: . e are feeble-minded, and if thatmeans that 1,600 of them will be taken from the almshouses and placed incolonies for the feeble-minded, that would leave a balance of only 400 per-sons scattered throughout the State in the county institutions, and thatmeans that over a million dollars would be tied up in real estate, whichmeans that the cost of maintenance in separate institutions would be toogreat to retain the present system. Although some counties seem to have solved the problem of pauperismwithout the expense attendant upon the maintenane of almshouses, th
. Mental defectives in Virginia: . e are feeble-minded, and if thatmeans that 1,600 of them will be taken from the almshouses and placed incolonies for the feeble-minded, that would leave a balance of only 400 per-sons scattered throughout the State in the county institutions, and thatmeans that over a million dollars would be tied up in real estate, whichmeans that the cost of maintenance in separate institutions would be toogreat to retain the present system. Although some counties seem to have solved the problem of pauperismwithout the expense attendant upon the maintenane of almshouses, thesolution is far from being a perfect one. In one county where there is noalmshouse, the poor are auctioned off .to the lowest bidder, and by this meansplaced on a farm at moderate cost. Here the objectionable features areself-evident. Eight other counties have almshouses, but either have nopaupers to inhabit them, or when they do have paupers, cause them to beprovided for by the overseers of the poor from the county pension Jfn Jflnjsliouse Group m ...: .. .*
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