. Mental defectives in Virginia: . upon them in unreasoning rage. Susie hasnot walked for five years, but manages to push her chair about the roomand helps with the cooking. Kate is epileptic, feeble-minded, syphilitic, nearly blind, and a hope-less cripple. She manages to walk around a little in spite of the fact thather body is so bent that she Can raise her head and shoulders only a little Mental Defectives in Virginia 49 above the waistline. She has had spells from the time she can remem-ber, and it is to a fall during one of these spells that her crippled conditionis attributed. No doctor
. Mental defectives in Virginia: . upon them in unreasoning rage. Susie hasnot walked for five years, but manages to push her chair about the roomand helps with the cooking. Kate is epileptic, feeble-minded, syphilitic, nearly blind, and a hope-less cripple. She manages to walk around a little in spite of the fact thather body is so bent that she Can raise her head and shoulders only a little Mental Defectives in Virginia 49 above the waistline. She has had spells from the time she can remem-ber, and it is to a fall during one of these spells that her crippled conditionis attributed. No doctor was called to see her—nature was allowed to takeits course. Kate cannot give her family history, but a portion of it wasobtained from the superintendent. It seems that she entered the institu-tion in 1883, where she later gave birth to twins. Her step-mother whomshe called Aunt Sallie was in the almshouse for years. She also wassimple and had the palsy. A nephew of Kate and his half-brother (a mu-latto) have also been THE MOTHER OF TWO FEEBLE-MINDEDCHILDREN BORN IN AN ALMSHOUSE. Lucy Ann first made her appearance at the almshouse in 1884, and hascome and gone half dozen times since. This time she has been an inmatesix years, and is now helpless and flighty. She and her sister used toindulge in drunken revels, and it was to recuperate from them that LucyAnn frequented the institution. Lucy Ann cannot give any connected ideaof her family history, and again the superintendent comes to our assist-ance. The woman has had no children. A sister of hers entered in 1888,but soon ran off with one of the oldest paupers and married him. In ayear they were again admitted, and the man stayed until death claimedhim, but the woman left and since then has managed to subsist on out-door relief and by dint of much begging. She is regarded as decidedlyfeeble-minded. These women have a brother who gets out-door relief. 50 State Board of Charities and Corrections In the negro division w
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