Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1902 — Feeble Minded Women. [ARTICLE]

Feeble Minded Women.

The completed reoord of feebleminded women in Indiana, compiled by Secretary Butler, of the State charities board, shows that 511 families in the state have feeble-minded members. The number of persona known to be represented is 1,924. These arc direct descendants and also those by marriages. Of this number, 1,249, or 64.9 per cent, were feebleminded. It is a matter .of record that in 1,042 cases, over 54 per cent of the whole, either one or both parents were defective.