After-Care of the Feeble-Minded: … … “Borderland” Cases: Dr. Helen Boyle’s paper on ” Borderland cases were able and incisive. She quoted Mrs. Pinsent who has pointed out that those among the rank of the unemployed who are found on investigation to be unemployable are largely recruited from physically and mentally defective stock. It has been shown over and over again that although offspring of the mentally defective do not always inherit mental defects, the mentally defective parent invariably fails to bring up his or her children to be good citizens. Such children, even when not defective, almost invariably become criminals or paupers. … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949