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send a child to an institution for feeble-mindedness average twice as many 

 as those who send a child to the university. 



On April 1, 1930 there were 57,084 deaf mutes and 63,489 blind in our 

 country. The state and federal prisoners had increased from 109,619 on 

 January 1, 1923 to 116,626 prisoners on January 1, 1929. These figures 

 do not include 27,238 juvenile delinquents on January 1, 1923. Prisoners 

 committed during the year 1931 reached the large figure of 70,966. Pau- 

 pers in almshouses numbered 78,090 on January 1, 1923. 



Paul Popenoe estimated that in 1928 there were 10,000,000 people at 

 large who were socially inadequate. They would include the mentally 

 diseased, the mentally defective, the criminal, the blind, the deaf, the 

 crippled, the germ diseased, the degenerative diseased, and all other de- 

 pendents. 



The estimates of the number of insane and mental defectives alone, accord- 

 ing to the Human Betterment Foundation, exceed 18,000,000 people in the 

 United States, not to mention the scores of other classes of people who are 

 also socially unadjusted. 



Deep seated changes are taking place in the quality and quantity of our 

 people. Some of these changes are beneficial; others are detrimental. 

 Statesmen must take heed of these changes and tendencies. Much of it is 

 fraught with danger to the fabric of our country. 



REFERENCES 



(1) Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1931, p. 67 ff. 



(2) Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. 



(3) Feeble-minded and Epileptics in State Institutions: 1926 and 1927, Government 



Printing Office, 1931. 



(4) Feeble-minded and Epileptics in State Institutions: 1928, Government Printing 



Office, 1931. 



(5) Hospital Service in the United States (1932), 98 Journal of the American Medical 



Association, 2070. 



(6) Mental Patients in State Hospitals: 1926 and 1927, Government Printing Office, 



1930. 



(7) Mental Patients in State Hospitals: 1928, Government Printing Office, 1931. 



(8) Patients in Hospitals for Mental Disease: 1923, Government Printing Office, 1926. 



(9) Popenoe, Paul: Number of People Needing Sterilization (1928), 19. Journal of 



Heredity, 405-410. 



(10) Human Sterilization (pamphlet), Pasadena, California: Human Betterment Foun- 



dation. 



(11) Landman, J. H.: Human Sterilization. N. Y., Macmillan Co., 1932. 



