A HOME OF Tin: HICKORIES 



To this shanty in an Ohio city, an elderly man of the Hickory family, a great clan of defectives 

 in rural Ohio, brought his girl-bride, together with his two grown sons by a former marriage. 

 The shanty is 6 by 1 feet in size and contained a bed, table and stove. It was conveniently 

 located at a distance of 100 feet from the city dump, where the family secured its food. 

 The oldest son has been in the county infirmary and two younger children are in an institu- 

 tion. The whole family is feebleminded. The attention of the city authorities was 

 called to this establishment when one of the sons was accidentally shot; the family was 

 then forced to leave, but was afterward reunited. vSuch a family is incapable of protecting 

 either itself or its neighbors, and should be cared for by the State. (Fig. 1.) 



their inability to k.c]) from l)ccomin^' 

 alcoholics may have b^-cn due to menial 

 defect. Only twenty-four Individttals, 

 or 35.8*;^, were dci)cndcnt Ijccause of 

 some infirmity due to old aj^v or illness. 



RESULTS OF TESTS 



Formal intelligence tests were made 

 of the chilflren in the County Children's 

 Home and of the one hundred and one 

 children in the Home at that time ten, 

 or 9.9%, were feeble-minded. When 

 this is comjjared with the percentage of 

 feeble-mincled children in the public 

 schools of the ct)unty, it is seen that 

 there is ])roportionatcly five timi'S as 

 much feeble-mindedness among the 

 dependent children in the Children's 

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Home as among the i)ublie school 

 cliildren. 



Two hundred and ninety-sev, n teach- 

 ers in one hundred ancl seventy-two 

 separate school buildings were visited, 

 or practically every grade teacher in 

 the county. Of 8,9vS0 school children 

 enrolled, one hundred and sixty-four, 

 or 1.8% of the enrollment, were found 

 to be feeble-minded. In the urban 

 scho(jls. 0.8'^', of the children enre)lled 

 were feebleminded while in the rural 

 districts 2.\'/, were feeble-minded. Or, 

 in other words, the ])roportion of feeble- 

 minded school children in the country 

 districts was two and one-half limes 

 greater than it was in the cities. 



A sjx'cial sttidy was made of two 



