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President's Address
He is not only ignorant beyond complete training -- he is diseased beyond cure, and often bad beyond reformation. In society his life is a failure. He must be cared for, fed and clothed, prevented from interfering with his neighbors, and from procreating his kind -- the degeneracy must cease here....
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Title: President's Address
Creator: E.R. Johnstone (author)
Date: June 1904
Format: Article
Publication: Journal of Psycho-Asthenics
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.8, no.4, pp.63-68
Keywords: Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Crime; Doctors; E.R. Johnstone; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Eugenics; Feeblemindedness; Government; Heredity; Ideologies; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medicine & Science; New Jersey; New Jersey Training School; Policy; Poverty; Professional Associations; Reproduction; Schools; Sexuality; Social Welfare & Communities; Sterilization; Women & Gender
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations