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for the insane, and have gotten into the latter because 

 an unenlightened public does not recognize the difference 

 between a person who has lost his mind and one who 

 never had one. 



In regard to criminality, we now have enough studies 

 to make us certain that at least 25 per cent of this class 

 is feeble-minded. One hundred admissions to the Rah- 

 way Reformatory, taken in order of admission, show 

 at least 26 per cent of them distinctly feeble-minded, 

 with the certainty that the percentage would be much 

 higher if we included the border-line cases. 



An investigation of one hundred of the Juvenile 

 Court children in the Detention Home of the City of 

 Newark showed that 67 per cent of them were distinctly 

 feeble-minded. From this estimate are excluded children 

 who are yet too young for us to know definitely whether 

 the case is one of arrested development. This point 

 once determined would unquestionably swell the per- 

 centage of defect. 



An examination of fifty-six girls from a Massachusetts 

 reformatory, but out on probation, showed that fifty- 

 two of them were distinctly feeble-minded. This was 

 partially a selected group, the basis being their trouble- 

 someness ; they were girls who could not be made to 

 stay in the homes that were found for them, nor to do 



