There are living among us to-day (writes Mr. Robert Mnehray in tho "london Mogazino") over 00,000 feeble-minded in England and Wales, and more than 20,000 in Scotland and.lreland at largo among tho community, a danger and n curse to society. If they were kept lo themselves it would bo bad enough, bin these mentally unfit marry and bave children. Not only are they producing children, most of whom inherit their mental defects, and nearly all of whom become criminals and paupers, but they aro constantly producing children'at "a far greater rale of increase than are the sound, normal elements in our population.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 6
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102Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 6
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