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The Care of the Defective in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Winifred Muirhead
Winifred Muirhead*
Affiliation:
Royal Asylum, Morningside, Edinburgh
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In the United States of America each state has self-government and different laws, and the latter differ to an even greater extent than is the case between the laws of Scotland and England; consequently some states have progressed infinitely further than others in the laws and the application of these laws for the social welfare of the people.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 59 , Issue 244 , January 1913 , pp. 53 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1913 

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