Scalp hair patterns in mental subnormality.

Scalp hair patterns in mental subnormality.

Scalp hair patterns have been examined in 1901 healthy subjects and 1789 severely subnormal patients. Patients with Down's syndrome had a highly significant excess of midline occipital whorls and a deficit of right-sided occipital whorls. Five out of 44 patients with microcephaly had a distinct 'up-sweep' of the frontal hair, a much lower proportion than found previously. Patients with unspecif...

Mental Subnormality—Whose Baby?

Firstly, I should make it clear that the use of the word "Baby", in the title of this paper, refers to mental, not chronological, age. In other words, I am not restricting myself only to a consideration of mentally subnormal children. Nevertheless, it has some meta-phorical meaning in so far as we are discussing a problem whose unpopular aspects are frequently apt to be bounced on to someone el...

Crime and Mental Subnormality

Epidemiology of Mental Subnormality

(we.ht the circumstances of their study. y*al nomenclature in England underIvji1 a change with the passing of the ntal Health Act, 1959. This not only changed "mental deficiency" into "mental subnormality" and did away with the terms "idiot", "imbecile" and "feeble-minded" (roughly replacing the first two by the severely subnormal and the last by the subnormal), but it "cured" those previously ...

Mental Subnormality and Community Care

This is the second Broadsheet arising out of the three-year study of community mental health services being carried on by P.E.P. under the direction of Dr. F. M. Martin, Edinburgh University. It surveys the present situation in regard to mental subnormality in four sections?Legal Changes, Epidemiology, Local Authority and Hospital Services, and Research?the whole constituting a valuable summing...