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Indiana University Studies 



When it is remembered that this study covers only a small 

 group of patients known to live social workers in one department 

 from September, 1911, until April, 1918, the magnitude of this 

 problem of the mental defective becomes evident. The first three 

 points of the conclusions reached by the Indiana Committee on 

 Mental Defectives are noteworthy: 



1. Existing social conditions are complicated by the presence 

 of defectives in the community. 



2. The value of reconstruction plans for the future will be 

 discounted by the defectives employed by our industries and by 

 those forced into idleness because of unfitness. 



3. Education of the public regarding the facts relative to 

 mental defect is necessary to the solution of the problems arising 

 therefrom. 



