to think it is one of the dispensations of Providence that we go on about

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ort of the Children's Society-The Segregation and Treatment of the Fee

fit, and to discourage the parenthood of the unworthy or unfit. The unfit are those, as previously e

y conceded by those who work amongst them. It should be our aim to discourage the intimate association of the adolescent deaf and dumb in institutions. It has been found that such intimate association frequently results in marriage. They should be educated and

ion or punishment. It is conservatively estimated that there are five million feeble-minded people in the United States to-day and not one-eighth of them are receiving adequate treatment or education. Recent statistics, from various countries, show that the percentage of deficient or feeble-minded children is decidedly on the increase.

and impulses, they are a menace to the well-being and to the progress of the normal or fit pupils; they retard and undermine the discipline of the schoolroom, and they affect the efficiency of the teachers. They are allowed to stay in school because of the indifference of the authorities, or because of the influence and social standing, or political "pull" of the parents, despite the recognition of the injustice done. Many of the parents of these children seek medical advice but, because of absurdly inadequate civic or state prov

nt we have to deal with.... From the ranks of these rowdies that are organized in bands, or bound up with chums or pals, come most of the crop of burglars, truck thieves, holdup men, gun-bearers, so-called 'bad men' and other criminals and dangerous characters. Without reverence for anything,

n the country, Dr. Max Schlapp, of New York. As a specialist in nervous diseases he has been connected with the Children's Society and the Children's Court, where he has had wide opportunities for observing the relation between deli

such, amiable and care-free as he usually is, is potentially a criminal, and at any moment may commit a crime. That child is permitted to grow up without restraint, except such as the parents exercise, and this has no effect whatever in these cases.

ly considered. When brought under corrective restraint it has hitherto long been the custom to herd all the cases together while serving time. But in 1894 the German Government woke

society. This has since been shown to exist in all the leading nations-England, France, Italy, where, by the way, the Camorrist type is the equivalent for our New York

ome up in the Children's Society and the Children's Court. They are carefully studied. From the actions of the child, from his parents and family history, from the frequency with which he repeats some

rary, they are sometimes bright on the surface, amiable, good-tempered under trying conditions, and almost likeable for their external social side. This is particularly true of the high grade defectives. The lower order may be taciturn, gloomy and retiring, and thes

e notably cruel toward animals. One boy we had in the Children's Society persistently killed all the dogs and cats his family kept. Finally, when they ceased keeping the animals he got at th

e conditions in the city is to have strict registration of all feeble-minded and insane. The state should discover them, examine them through public officials, and segregate th

pped, and under ancestral disabilities and the disadvantages of environment that is pernicious, he cannot get very far. A boy usually qualifies with a gang on his own personality and tastes. He will often wander from one gang to another until he has found his particu

e isolated island. Civilization is coming to recognize such a necessity. With a close eye on the tide of immigration and a careful segr

n, of Kansas City, Mo., in an able and exhaustive article on "The

dren, but degenerates who required medical rather than penal treatment. 'Boys and girls,' says he, 'should not receive correction in the city jails, the work house or reformatories. These should be the last resort. To correct a boy you must have an idea of his mental processes. It is natural that the parents understand something of

e appropriate care and treatment of the juvenile offender, is certain, for he understands the fact that the parents are often the chief culp

rs. Bourneville claims that 48 per cent. of the idiots and imbeciles are the offspring of alcoholic parents.... Acute and chronic diseases in the parents, fright, shock, injur

the world over, and when this is done they can be made under appro

specially for the large body of feeble-minded who are now without any medical care whatever. Moreover, where it

e cost of the insane we must take into account the value or worth of each adult to the State. This value has been computed to be $700 a year. If, upon this

by estimating the worth of the help whose whole time is devoted to the care of the insane. If these individuals worked at some other trade or profession, their time w

Panama Canal; or to pay for the total cost of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial departments of our government. The total

ohol taken into the stomach can be demonstrated in the testicle or ovary within a few minutes, and, like any other poison, may injure the sperm or the germ element therein contained. As a result of this intoxicati

g several normal children became a drunkard and had imbecile offspring"; and another case has been recorded of a healthy woman who, when ma

n found on

s, sisters or daughters, of sober habits and married to sober husbands. On comparing the death rate amongst the children of the sober mothers with that amongst the children of the drunken women of the same stock, the former was found

were healthy, the fourth was of defective intelligence, the fifth was an epileptic id

who do not die, live as epileptics. This action of alcohol on the health and vitality of the race is the most serious of the evil

ortions among the children of drunken mothers, show tha

by orthodox temperance efforts; they continue to propagate drunkenness, and thereby nullify the good results of temperance energy. Their children, born of defective parents, and educated by their surroundings grow up without a chance of decent life, and constitute the reser

t a large percentage of our mentally defective children, including

ic inebriate must n