Such a system has been in existence for the past two and a half years "1 the Scottish Eastern Hospital Region, being fully described in the current (December) issue of the American Journal of Mental Deficiency, and in the forthcoming Health Bulletin of the Scottish Department of Health. Since hospital service and local authority are concerned with varying aspects of mental deficiency, a clinic ...

dealt mainly with theoretical problems, psychological explanations and classifications. This earlier edition departed most from the traditional approach by including two extensive chapters on projective techniques and psychotherapy. These chapters embody the modern psychological approach to the field of mental deficiency and provoke much stimulating thought on the traditionally accepted I.Q., r...

duction and Annotations, by R. A. Leach, of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, Northern Circuit. Poor-Law Publications, Ltd. 15/-. For some years those whose duties have included the guidingof students through the intricacies of the Mental Deficiency Act have found themselves hampered by the fact that " Leach " was out of print; for to read the Act by itself is a process of little value, tending, in...

During a previous investigation in which a decreased production of 5-hydroxyindoles was demonstrated in phenylketonuric patients (Pare, Sandler, and Stacey, 1957, 1959), we observed that some non-phenylketonuric mental defectives had abnormally high serum levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). We have now extended our observations and tried to define the extent and significance of this finding.

The tenth edition of this well-known textbook is a notable improvement on the last, > fully describes the legal and social changes that have taken place in Britain in the interval. Jedgold and Soddy have included six other collaborators from University College , ?sPital, London, and whilst the many distinguished authors from a London teaching ?spital are a credit to the book, it is a serious de...

Dear Sir, With regard to the paragraph in the April issue of Studies in Mental Inefficiency on Mental Deficiency and Venereal Disease, I think it might interest you to know that our experience in Oxford, though on a small scale, is quite different from that quoted by you from the London County Council. Of the last 24 women (aged 16 to 30) who have been certified here, 10 were found to be suffer...

"In Northern Ireland there is no Mental Deficiency Act, no institution, no community supervision and there is only one special school (in Belfast) which is unable to meet even local needs. Apart from the inadequate provision made by the Education Acts and the Poor Relief Acts, the responsibility for dealing with mental defectives has not been placed by statute on any authority and, for the most...

pr. Sarason has attempted to cover the whole ? ^ of mental deficiency in this book, and this has Evolved deliberate emphasis of certain types and a rather cursory dismissal of others. It is not easy to write such a book for clinical and ^?cial workers, psychiatrists and psychologists, and Wiere the whole emphasis tends to be on the Psychology of mental deficiency it is questionable Primary amen...

This new addition to mental deficiency literature is contributed by psychologists and will certainly serve as a reference book for their research and conclusions on the subject. It is clearly written, but occasionally heavy; the work described, theoretical and practical , leads the reader imperceptibly to the conviction that training, socialisation and employment are possible for the great majo...