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| Title: | Menaces To Society | |
| From: | Eugenicists Would Improve Human Stock By Blotting Out Blood Taints | |
| Original caption: | CLASSED AS A HIGH GRADE IMBECILE, THIS GIRL EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD POSSESSES THE BRAIN OF A CHILD OF SEVEN. ALTHOUGH NINETEENT YEARS OLD THIS GIRL IS ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD MENTALLY PHYSICALLY A WOMEN BETWEEN 25 & 30 YEARS, MENTALLY SHE IS ONLY SIX. SHE HAS A FEEBLE-MINDED SISTER THIS MAN. THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD, HAS ONLY THE MENTALITY OF A CHILD OF EIGHT AND ONE-HALF YEARS | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | February 18, 1912 | |
| Format: | Photograph | |
| Publication: | New-York Daily Tribune | |
| Source: | Library of Congress | |
| Location: | p.2 | |
| Keywords: | Cognitive Disability; Feeblemindedness; Henry H. Goddard; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Kallikaks; Medicine & Science | |
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