Feeble-Minded in Our Midst
Subtitle: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780807845318
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Emergency services; Mental health services; Social history; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1900 - c 1914; People with mental disabilitie; History - General History; History: American; USA; People with mental disabilities; General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; History; Government policy; Institutional care; Southern States
First sentence: Ten southern states either opened institutions for the feeble-minded or radically changed the focus of their existing facilities during the ten-year period from 1914 to 1923 (see table I.I).