Typescript lecture notes titled Mental deficiency: lecture 1

• Reference:GB 248 DC 081/4/1/1/78
• Dates of Creation:c1960s-1970s
• Physical Description:
  lecture notes (6 pages)

• Scope and Content

  Covers the three degrees of mental defect: idiots, imbeciles, and the feeble-minded, statistics on the incidence of mental defect, and biological variation.

  With minor corrections.

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