. 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. SOME BUILDINGS AT THE VIRGINIA COLONY FOR FEEBLE-MINDED AND ^c P£ ~n ^c Q2^ ? Hi E- Pi w o -o ^c -O ^C 34 State Board Charities and Corrections Chart 85.—An Institutional Family.—Here the central mating is of afeeble-minded, insane, immoral woman, No. 24, (thrice married) and a feeble-minded,
. 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. SOME BUILDINGS AT THE VIRGINIA COLONY FOR FEEBLE-MINDED AND ^c P£ ~n ^c Q2^ ? Hi E- Pi w o -o ^c -O ^C 34 State Board Charities and Corrections Chart 85.—An Institutional Family.—Here the central mating is of afeeble-minded, insane, immoral woman, No. 24, (thrice married) and a feeble-minded, epileptic man who died in the colony. This marriage which wasthe womans second matrimonial venture, resulted in three feeble-mindedchildren, two of whom are now in orphanages. Note that the womansfirst and second husbands were brothers. By the first husband she hadthree children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other two are nowliving, one in a reform school and the other with a family said to be im-moral. Both are feeble-minded. This woman, No. 24, was married the thirdtime to a man with whom she had lived a while before her second husbandwas taken to the colony. Her third husband served a term in the peniten-tiary. He and his twin brother were feeble-minded. While the only epi-leptic member of this family died in the colony, it will be noted
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