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The British government's Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded (1904–1908), in its Report in 1908 defined the feeble-minded as: [P]ersons who may be capable of earning a living under favourable circumstances, but are incapable from mental defect, existing from birth or from an early age: (1) of competing on equal terms with their normal fellows, or (2) of managing ...
Feeble-minded or Feeb [6] [16] Fit In reference to an epileptic seizure [6] Flid People with phocomelia from birth mother's use of thalidomide [37] Freak [25] [38] G ...
In 1852, a school for "feeble-minded" youth opened in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and another in Columbus, Ohio in 1857. [1] While the number of schools continued to increase, the amount of training did not. These "schools" soon became custodial institutions, places to house people to keep them out of society.
[1] [2] The word arises from the Latin word imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded. [3] It originally referred to people of the second order in a former and discarded classification of intellectual disability, with a mental age of three to seven years and an IQ of 25–50, above " idiot " (IQ below 25) and below " moron " (IQ of 51–70). [ 4 ]
Beginning with Connecticut in 1896, many states enacted marriage laws with eugenic criteria, prohibiting anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" [36] from marrying. [37] The first state to introduce a compulsory sterilization bill was Michigan in 1897 – although the proposed law failed to garner enough votes by legislators to be ...
The word “timely” is often used to describe novels that appear at a resonant historical moment. ... It is modeled on the historical institution of Laurelton State Village for Feeble-Minded ...
The Virginia State colony was a center for feeble minded whites only. Blacks were not admitted to the colony throughout its early years. However, the state of Virginia in 1939 created the Petersburg Colony for the care of blacks who were deemed either “insane” or “feebleminded.” [ 11 ] The poorly-funded colony was a work camp for its ...
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