Word: feeblemindedness
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The 1,000 delinquents were boys sent to the Judge Baker Guidance Center by Boston's Juvenile Court between 1917 and 1922. Most of them were the sons of Boston's immigrant poor- Italian or Irish Roman Catholics. They had been arrested for stealing, gambling, truancy, fighting. Their...
Why not read up on your history? There is no "school for the feebleminded" between Helena and Butte, but a large institute for the deaf, dumb, and blind. Also, the population of Helena is not 11,800 but 12,900.
...differences between the "worthy Quakeress and the feeble-minded slattern" cannot account for the differences between the two Kallikak clans. For Old Horror, who was presumably feebleminded, could not, by the law of genetics, have inherited his feeble mind from one parent alone. Only "recessive" genes are involved in feeblemindedness, "which means that such genes must come from both parents for the effect to assert itself." Hence "the worthy Martin Kallikak Sr., himself had to be carrying such genes of feeblemindedness . . . and the 'good' Kallikaks also received some of those genes." Most probably, concludes Mr. Scheinfeld, bad environment...
Not every spastic paralytic can take a gamble like Sylva's. Sometimes the motor control centres of the brain are injured at birth. Such children may learn to walk after a fashion, but their movements are disordered and uncontrolled. They are often mistakenly considered feebleminded, although the intellectual centres...
Concluded indignant Dr. Kanner: "Time alone will tell how many more feebleminded, illegitimate, neglected children this group of released patients will in the future bestow on a Commonwealth that can do nothing but look on and pay the penalty for the indiscriminate habeas corpus release by its courts of justice...