Excerpt from Report on the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective and Feeble-Minded in Ontario
The fact that the Province assumes without question the duty of educating its children, the fact that a new View of the national. Importance of proper environ ment for the population has arisen which is insistent for good housing. Sanitation. Amusements and leisure time - the fact that life's handicaps such as blindness or mutilation by war or accident, are regarded as deserving of special help - these fact in themselves would indicate that mental deficiency must be the very serious concern of the State.
But when-to these more general considerations are added the grave statistic. Which link crime and mental deficiency together, so that feeble-mindedness, un watched, has become almost synonymous with vice, then it is beyond the need of argument that the Provincial authorities must impose upon themselves, and those public bodies which represent the entire population, the burden of the care. And. If possible, the cure or minimizing of this serious evil.
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