FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN.
The Hon. J. A. Hunan (Minister of Education) states, in reply to a (piestion by Mr \V. T. Jennings, that as (he result of investigation recently made it has been found that there are at least six hundred feebleminded young people under 21 years of age in the Dominion. The question of feeble-minded people is receiving attentive consideration. It is becoming more and more recognised that from such ranks the criminal element in the population is exclusively recruited. The provision of special institutions of a custodial charnel or in connection with the mental hospital system, whereby the most distressing eases of feeblemindedness may be transferred from ordinary homes, and dangers in regard to the propagation of feebie-inindedness, will he appropriately the special concern of the Minister of Public Health, with whom he will confer.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1741, 28 July 1917, Page 3
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136FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1741, 28 July 1917, Page 3
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