CHAPTER IL THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY 
There were 704 mental defectives found in County H. 
As the total population is 23,500, the per cent of defectives is 
2.99. This number is very conservative, for all the cases in 
which there is the slightest bit of doubt as to their condition, 
have been thrown out. Many other cases, in which the inves- 
tigators were reasonably sure that the persons were defectives, 
but of which there was little proof, were also discarded. The 
borderline cases were noted and a card index made of them, 
but they were not included in the final tabulation. 
See Tables II, III, and IV. Of the above defectives, 527 
were feeble-minded. Only 31 of these are receiving institu- 
tional care. Of the remaining 498, 208 are greatly in need 
of care. Of the total number, 461 are morons, 52 are im- 
beciles, and 14 are idiots. 
Because of the common terror of the insane, a large per 
cent of this group is receiving care and treatment. Out of 
110 insane,* only 52 are at large, and 26 of these are harmless 
cases who are well taken care of at home. This leaves only 
26 in the community needing care. Of the 58 who are in 
institutions, 52 are in the Southeastern Hospital for the In- 
sane, 3 are in the County Poor Asylum, and 3 are in the State 
Hospital for the Criminal Insane. 
The epileptics are the ones suffering most from lack of 
care. Of 67 in this class, only 7 are in institutions: 1 of 
them being in the Indiana Village for Epileptics, 1 in the 
County Poor Asylum, 4 in the Southeastern Hospital for the 
Insane, and 1 in the Indiana Girls' School. Of the 60 in the 
community, all should be receiving care and treatment, but 
it is imperative in the name of humanity that 20 of them 
receive it at once. Of this 20, 8 are women for whom there 
is no place until the Village is enlarged to accommodate them. 
At the present time it is almost impossible to get men admitted 
because of the crowded conditions there. In 1918, a man stayed 
in the county jail for 5 months without once setting his foot 
on the ground, waiting to be admitted to the Village. At last 
he was taken to the County Poor Asylum where he was con- 
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