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infants in mortality and morbidity from institu- 

 tional life they are under abnormal conditions 

 if they stay too long in such a place. The de- 

 fective or delinquent child is best handled in an 

 institution, but all others do better outside. 

 The mass training of defectives is often more 

 effective than individual care. 



Professor E. P. Devine ^ states that while in 

 some places institutions seem necessary, yet 

 they should not be encouraged, as they are 

 wasteful of child life, wasteful of economic 

 efficiency and character, promotive often of a 

 spirit the opposite of law abiding, and this be- 

 cause they do not give an experience to the child 

 in natural family and neighborhood relation- 

 ships, do not give an opportunity for the devel- 

 opment of self-reliance and self-direction, do 

 not gradually initiate the child into the every 

 day routine of free citizenship, but necessarily 

 repress his budding individuality, limit and con- 

 trol the exercise of his judgment as to his body, 

 contract his vision, mutilate his faculties and 

 distort his sense of values. 



1 "The Normal Life" — Survey Associates. 



