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production of misfits, at its sources. We need a social survey of large 

 bodies of our population, so as to map out the tainted stocks. Such, a 

 thoroughgoing study of kakogenics in the territory of a given state 

 would enable that state to develop principles to guide in the practise of 

 breeding out these bad strains. All agree they are just as dangerous 

 and expensive as smallpox, typhoid or tuberculosis, and that we should 

 proceed by equally radical measures for the extermination of such 

 strains as are used to rid communities of these diseases. 



This view of the problems involved in delinquency, through the 

 insight and persistency of Dr. E. J. Emerick, superintendent of the 

 Ohio Institution for Feeble-Minded, and of Dr. A, F. Shepard, member 

 of the Ohio Board of Administration, secured legislation during the 

 winter of 1913-1913, pro\dding for the establishment of a Bureau of 

 Juvenile Eesearch, July 1, 1914. The provisions of the statute are as 

 follows : 



Section 1841 — 1. — All minors, who in the judgment of the juvenile court 

 require state institutional care and guardianship, shall be wards of the state 

 and shall be committed to the care and custody of the "The Ohio Board of 

 Administration," which board thereupon becomes vested with the sole and ex- 

 elusive guardianship of such minors. 



Section 1841 — 2. — "The Ohio Board of Administration" shaU provide and 

 maintain a "Bureau of Juvenile Eesearch" and shall employ competent per- 

 sons to have charge of such bureau and to conduct investigations. 



Section 1841 — 3. — "The Ohio Board of Administration" may assign the 

 children committed to its guardianship to the ' ' Bureau of Juvenile Eesearch ' ' 

 for the purpose of mental, physical and other examination, inquiry or treatment 

 for such period of time as such board may deem necessary. Such board may 

 cause any minor in its custody to be removed thereto for observation and a com- 

 plete report of every such observation shall be made in writing, and shall in- 

 clude a record of observation, treatment, medical history, and a recommendation 

 for future treatment, custody, and maintainence. "The Ohio Board of Admin- 

 istration" or its duly authorized representatives shall then assign the child to 

 a suitable state institution or place it in a family under such rules and regula- 

 tions as may be adopted. 



Section 1841 — 4. — Any minor having been committed to any state institu- 

 tion may be transferred by such ' ' The Ohio Board of Administration, ' ' to 

 any other state institution, whenever it shall appear that such minor by reason 

 of its delinquency, neglect, insanity, dependency, epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, or 

 crippled condition or deformity, ought to be in another institution. Such board 

 before making transfer shall make a minute of the order for such transfer and 

 the reason therefore, upon its record, and shall send a certified copy at least 

 seven days prior to such transfer, to the person shown by its records to have had 

 the care or custody of such minor immediately prior to its commitment, pro- 

 vided that, except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall be transferred 

 from a benevolent to a penal instution. 



Section 1841 — 5. — ' ' The Ohio Board of Administration ' ' may receive any 

 minor for observation from any public institution, other than a state institution, 

 or from any private charitable institution, or person having legal custody there- 

 of, upon such terms as such board may deem proper. 



