(Printed by kind permission of the London Association for Mental Welfare.) I feel that it is necessary at the outset to explain why most of my remarks this afternoon refer to the more general and theoretical aspects of my subject. We had hoped that Part III of the Report of the Joint Committee on Mental Deficiency would have been published by this time. In this part of the Report the Committee ...

This is very much a personal effort and a personal statement but, 40 years after the first edition, the author is entitled to write in that way and to expect his views to have attention. Some of the views may, perhaps, invite disagreement, but that is a healthy condition where knowledge is not yet complete or assured. The important thing is to have a full statement of the facts that are known, ...

authSClnat'n? study of a small number of children suffering from oligophrenia. The re, ,?r defines oligophrenia as those forms of mental deficiency which arise as a show *ntra Uterine or early lesions of the central nervous system and which qC|j n5? tendency to progress. Dr. Pevzner's definition is the same as Dr. Lise Th S' excePt that the latter limits the group to up to six years old. aut0 ....

as a result of the enlightened attitude of the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Board are good units, that is they are staffed in a manner commensurate with the importance of the problemMental deficiency is a social and legal concept and anyone who has had experience of the problem will know that there are many children classed as mental defectives who will show very gratifying results if speci...

The most fascinating and informative biography that has recently come to my attention is that of William Conrad Rontgen by Dr. Otto Glasser of Cleveland, which includes a chapter of "Personal Reminiscences" by Margret Boveri of Berlin. The preliminary part of the book deals with the dramatic chapter in science, the discovery of the roentgen rays, with a reprinting of Rontgen's first article "On...

It was my good fortune to be the guest of Dr. F. Douglas lurner and t e Royal Medico-Psychological Association on the occasion of the 1933 anni^a meeting of that Association at Clacton-on-Sea. This afforded an opportunity for meeting the leaders in the field of mental deficiency in England with w ose work I had heretofore been familiar only at a distance. It also mac*e , e brief visits to a few...

Chairman Yannet: Mental deficiency may be defined as an interference with the development of intellectual capacity resulting in social inadequacy. This may be so severe as to necessitate complete custodial care indefinitely ; it may be so slight, that a simple change in environment or program may allow for relatively normal community activity with minimal to no supervision. For these different ...

to treat of the inheritance and transmission of mental deficiency with any degree of precision. Dr. Tredgold inveighs against the all-too-common belief that genius is so intimately connected with insanity that we must cheerfully put up with the latter for the sake of the former. He maintains that the great majority of men and women of outstanding ability have been particularly sane and have com...