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for a child suffering with a tuberculous infection. Recently 

 the father ran away with a feeble-minded woman and de- 

 serted the children so that once again they are in the Board 

 of Children's Guardians' Home, where the patient will be re- 

 quired to have necessary medical attention. 



Outside the sphere of this group of 150 cases it is inter- 

 esting to note the number of crippled children in a few of 

 the institutions in the state. The Indianapolis Orphans' 

 Asylum sent in the following report, in response to a question- 

 naire : 



SEX AGE GRADE CRIPPLED CONDITION 



Boy 17 8 Tuberculosis of the spine 



Girl 13 4 Cleft palate and harelip 



Boy 10 3 Crippled leg 



Boy 11 5 Crippled leg 



Boy 7 . . Tuberculosis of knee 



Boy 2 mths. . . Clubfeet 



Boy 12 3 Crippled hands and feet 



The Indiana State Tuberculosis Hospital at Rockville sent 

 in a report of only two cases of cripples under eighteen years 

 of age: two boys, aged fifteen and thirteen, both having 

 tuberculosis of the hip. 



The Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home sent the 

 following report : 



SEX AGE GRADE CRIPPLED CONDITION 



Boy 14 5 Tuberculosis of hip 



Boy 8 2 Infantile paralysis 



Boy 14 4 Tuberculosis of hip 



Boy 11 4 Scoliosis 



Boy 7 . . Muscular paralysis 



Boy 12 4 Tuberculosis of hip 



The Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth sent in a 

 very interesting report which proves the definitions discussed 

 in the chapter on causes of deformity. Out of a total of 49 

 cases of crippled children in this institution, 32 of the cases 

 (68 per cent) are cases of spastic paralysis, which is the one 

 cause of crippled condition among children affecting the brain 

 and therefore nearly always including mental deficiency to- 

 gether with the paralyzed condition. It is interesting to note 

 that in an institution for feeble-minded, the crippled inmates 

 are predominantly cases of spastic paralysis. The other cases 

 of deformity mentioned are as follows : 



