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 x 



A. W. TREDGOLD 



SHOWING THE TOTAT. NTMBKR of AMEXTS, 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. 



Adapted from "Menial Deficiency," p. VI, Wood. N. V., 1908. 



