Mental Disease and Defect 



31 



Howev er, the 1919 legislature made an appropriation of more than 

 a quarter of a million dollars for the erection of cottages for 

 women, as well as for enlarging the men's quarters. 



Because of the lack of room at the Village for Epileptics, many 

 epileptics will be found in the School for Feeble-minded Youth 

 (which excluded them from admission in 1911), the insane hos- 

 pitals, the county poor asylums, the state prisons, etc. Table VII 

 gives the situation on September 30, 1916.* 



TABLE VII. EPILEPTICS IN STATE AND COUNTY INSTITUTIONS 



MALE FEMALE 



State Prison 47 



Woman's Prison, Correctional Department 2 



Indiana Reformatory 17 



Indiana Girls' School 4 



Indiana State Farm 3 



School for Feeble-minded Youth 61 164 



Village for Epileptics 305 



Central Hospital for Insane 46 52 



Northern Hospital for Insane 6 27 



Eastern Hospital for Insane 10 11 



Southern Hospital for Insane 31 34 



Southeastern Hospital for Insane 47 43 



Marion County Asylum for Insane 18 19 



County poor asylums 56 82 



County jails 2 



Orphans' homes 1 2 



Grand total 648 442 



1,090 



Table VIII shows classification according to age and sex. 

 TABLE VIII. CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO AGE AND SEX 





OVER 



UNDER 







SIXTEEN 



SIXTEEN 



TOTAL 





23 



13 



36 





23 



8 



31 





46 



21 



67 



' This shows that 46 or more than two-thirds of the group 

 are over sixteen years of age. According to Dr. Kineon's chart, 

 perhaps 25 per cent of these have had epilepsy since five years of 

 age or earlier and by this time show a marked mental deterio- 

 ration. 



* Report of the Committee on Mental Defectives in Indiana, November 10, 1916, 

 p. 17. 



