Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Statistical Directory of State Institutions for the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes
The class of institutions for which statistical and other descriptive data are published in this volume was defined to include any institution in operation on January 1, 1916, owned or leased, managed in whole or in part, and maintained to the extent of at least 50 per cent of its annual expenditures by the state or Federal government and devoted to the custodial or other continuous care of persons belonging to one or more of the following classes: (1) Feeble-minded; (2) Insane; (3) Criminalistic (including the delinquent and wayward); (4) Epileptic; (5) Inebriate (including drug habitues); (6) Tuberculous (or others with chronic infectious segregated diseases); (7) Blind; (8) Deaf; (9) Deformed; and (10) Dependent.
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