Author: Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth School

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780666528605

Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth: October, 1868 Gentlemen - The undersigned, Trustees, present the follow ing Report for the year which closes this day. As the persons who make up your respective bodies are changed continually, it is well to give, from time to time, in our Annual Report, an outline of the history and a general state ment of the objects of the institution. After our community had been awakened to the sad condi tion of those who, becoming insane, became thereby utterly helpless and dependent, and after the legislature had made what seemed ample provision for the cure of the curable, and the care of the incurable, it was found that a large class had been entirely neglected, to wit, those who were born to this sad condition, because they lacked self-guiding power, and the capacity of attaining it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.