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as a rule, because of old age or because they are homeless 
cripples. They do not give up the struggle until it is impos- 
sible for them to fight longer, and when they do go to the 
County Asylum they stay until death. 
As the institution now exists in County H., it is more of 
a detention home for mental defectives than anything else. 
They are not being properly cared for because the institution 
IS not built for that purpose. There is no way of caring for 
the sick inmates who should be in hospitals, for the insane 
who should be in special institutions, or for the feeble-minded 
who should be in self-supporting colonies. If it is impossible 
to send each inmate to that kind of an institution best suited 
to his condition, the feeble-minded, especially the women, 
should be prohibited from leaving the institution except by 
the permission of some person in authority competent to de- 
cide whether or not that person is capable of competing on 
equal terms with his neighbors. 
