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ing every effort to withdraw Alice from the institution. While 

 she has a real affection for her daughter, she says, "If Alice can 

 do laundry work up there, she can do it here and help me keep 

 house too.'' (She has a fairly large boarding-house.) No amount 

 of persuasion will induce her to believe that Alice is better off 

 where she is and that she would prove more of an economic bur- 

 den than an aid. 



Pansy C. is a moron, now eighteen years of age, described 

 as "having the ways of a child". She was reared in an orphans' 

 home and at sixteen allowed to work out as a domestic. Her 

 employer says she was very erratic and subject to moods, often 

 morbid and given to crying spells. She was returned to the Home, 

 from which she later ran away, in company with another girl, 

 and was traced to a town not far distant where she was working 

 in a factory. She was again returned to the Home, but later 

 sent to her mother, who will now assume all responsibility, in a 

 large city. What the results of this arrangement will be can 

 only be imagined. 



The relatively small number out of this group in the School 

 for Feeble-minded Youth has been mentioned elsewhere. It will 

 be noted in Table V that here again the majority are males. Those 

 in other institutions at present include the feeble-minded epi- 

 leptics who have been sent to the Village for Epileptics and the 

 female epileptics who are temporarily housed in hospitals for 

 the insane. Of those who were formerly in other institutions, 

 some came from orphans' homes, several had been sentenced to the 

 Girls' School at Clermont or the Boys' School at Plainfield, 1 

 came from the Woman's Prison, and 1 from the Detention Home. 

 The number convicted of crime is rather small and the crimes in 

 most instances were petty. Of the boys 8 were convicted for 

 stealing; the offenses of the other 2 are unknown. One girl was 

 said to have slain her illegitimate baby ; the other was a Woman's 

 Prison ward, but her offense is unrecorded. 



TABLE V. INSTITUTIONAL CARE 



MALES 



FEMALES TOTAL 



In the School for Feeble-minded Youth 14 



In other Institutions 3 



Formerly in other institutions 10 



Convicted of crime 5 



8 22 



2 5 



4 14 



2 7 



Of those not in institutions there are 52 city residents and 21 

 small town or country residents. However, of the city residents, 

 21 were born in small towns or the country and many had lived 



