Care of Mental Defectives, the Insane, and Alcoholics in Springfield, Illinois

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Excerpt from Care of Mental Defectives, the Insane, and Alcoholics in Springfield, Illinois: A Study by the National Committee for Mental HygieneDefects and disorders of the mind lead fre quently to con¿icts with the environment. AS our Chief mechanism for dealing with individuals who come into con¿ict with their environment is that constituted by the courts and the police, the prob lem of mental deficiency very Often complicates that Of crime. The relief of such long-continued illness as insanity, usually tests, sooner or later, most of the different agencies of a community for the treatment of the sick and the care of the de pendent. A careful study of the methods employed in dealing with mental deficiency and insanity throws light, therefore, upon the efficiency of many social agencies with which they do not, at first glance, seem especially concerned.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.