Progress in humanity is stimulated by individuals, however much organised society takes over the responsibility afterwards. In this respect Harold Nelson Burden was a powerful individual in establishing in this country the official acceptance of responsibilty for the care of mental defectives. He was a member of the 1904 Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the feeble-minded, and out of ...

"There are Kallikak families all about us."?Goddard. This report is based upon a study of the families of ten pupils who have attended the Canton schools within the last twenty years. The records, while incomplete, tend to show the increase in the number of defectives and dependents among the descendants of sub-normal men and women, and the relation existing between defective mentality and econ...

to be found in these pages the latest facts and figures as to what is actually happening but they also reveal how the problem is presenting itself to those most closely at grips with it, and what is the angle from which it is being approached. From the report before us we learn that so far as the working of Section J of the Mental Deficiency Act is concerned, the position is distinctly improvin...

arrangements for physical illness. Patients are to be admitted without formality?so that even voluntary status is an unnecessary concept: safeguards and standards of individual care are to be those that any doctor or hospital authority would naturally employ. The needs of the patient are more important in determining the type of hospital he goes to than scientific classifications. All this mean...

Nervous Children. By Beverly R. Tucker, M.D. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1916. Pp. 147. Dr. Tucker writes as a neurologist, but not for neurologists. What strikes most forcibly a student of psychology is his apparent failure to grasp the psychological problems of nervous and mentally deficient children, and his lack of any reference to the large and growing psychological literature on their trai...