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Intelligence Scale and then classified according to his Intel- 
ligence Quotient, teacher’s estimate, ancestral and personal 
history. Those found subnormal were visited in the home. 
Relatives in the neighborhood were also visited. The people 
were quite ready to talk over their illnesses and troubles, and 
in the course of the friendly conversations many new cases 
were discovered. Luckily the field worker was acting as 
temporary worker in the county for the Southeastern Hospital 
for the Insane, and this gave a legitimate motive for inquiring 
closely into the ancestry of those related to patients at the 
Hospital. 
The result is a large mass of data gathered from every 
available source, a large part of which will be presented in this 
study. 
To those familiar with this field of work, it may seem 
that there has been an unnecessary amount of space devoted 
to detailed description. But since Indiana, along with many 
other states, is endeavoring to place the problem of the mental 
defective before the people and because very few individuals 
outside active social work are acquainted with the mental 
defective as he really exists, it was thought best to make the 
treatment as concrete as possible. 
