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On the Care and Training of Young Idiots and Imbeciles [Zur Pflege und Erziehung jugendlicher Idioten und Schwachsinnigen]. (Neurol. Wochenschr., Nos. 44, 45, and 46.) Krayatsch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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In three numbers of this weekly, Dr. Krayatsch, Director of the Asylum at Mauer-Oehling in Lower Austria, shows what has been already done, and what is farther proposed to be done, in Lower Austria for young idiots and imbeciles. By the census of 1890 there were returned, in a population of 2,800,000, 3000 idiots and cretins, of whom 400 were considered to be of a school-attending age. But Professor von Wagner, in his investigations on cretinism in Styria, has shown that in the year 1899 there were as many as 284 boys and 184 girls in institutions for the care and training of weak-minded children in Lower Austria.

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Part III.—Epitome of Current Literature
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1903 

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