RURAL HEALTH MENTAL 



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In conclusion, Dr. Key remarks : 



"No sensible person to-day questions the State's authority to 

 cleanse a polluted water supply or take any measures deemed 

 necessary to stop the spread of disease. . . . Why should it not 

 exercise the same jurisdiction with regard to these plague spots, 

 the sources of moral contagion?" 



She strongly urges the need of locating the worst centers of 

 degeneracy and defect; registration of notoriously bad strains; 

 marriage laws to restrain marriage into these strains; establish- 

 ment of adequate institutions immediately, for the custodial care 

 of those whose continued multiplication cannot be prevented by 

 these means. 



AMENTIA IN RURAL ENGLAND 1 



A. W. TREDGOLD 



SHOWING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AMKNTS, AND IDIOTS, IMBECILES, AND 

 FEEBLE-MINDED, RESPECTIVELY, PER 1,000 POPULATION, IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS 

 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, ACCORDING TO THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ROYAL 

 COMMISSION, 1904. 



Adanted from "Mental DpfirioTu-v " n. 12. Wood. M. Y.. 190S. 



