Excerpt from Feeble-Minded Citizens in Pennsylvania: Being the Report of a Survey of a Certain Locality Comprising About 700 Square Miles and Having a Population Estimated at 16, 000, During the Four Months From August 7 to December 6, 1914 for the Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania
The following survey, made by Dr. Wilhelmine E. Key, of Polk, Pennsylvania, for the Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania, was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia, to whom not only the Association but the State owes a debt of gratitude.
The State of Pennsylvania is caring for about four thousand feeble-minded. It supports two institutions for this class of dependents and is in process of constructing a new one to be used exclusively for feeble-minded women of child-bearing age. It also pays a private institution for the feeble-minded to care for quite a number of such persons for whom the State has no accommodation.
The waiting list of the three existing institutions is apparently from eight hundred to one thousand.
A recent investigation of the hospitals and asylums caring for the dependent insane in Pennsylvania, including the County almshouses having insane patients, indicates that, collectively, they are caring for at least five or six hundred feeble-minded.
Although reliable statistics are not available as to the number of mental defectives in the various penal and correctional institutions of the State, in view of the fact that the combined census of these institutions exceeds ten thousand, the experience of other communities would make it almost certain that the number of feeble-minded confined in such places is considerable.
The same thing is probably true of the various homes and asylums for dependent children.
Experts who have made a special study of the incidence of feeble-mindedness tell us that the number of people of this character at large in the community and, therefore, not included in any of the classes above described, far exceeds those receiving any sort of custodial care.
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