Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
MR. SAMUEL S. FELS
A LAYMAN WITH THE SCIENTIST’S LOVE OF TRUTH AND THE
TRUE CITIZEN’S LOVE OF HUMANITY WHO MADE POSSIBLE
THIS STUDY AND WHO HAS FOLLOWED
THE WORK FROM ITS INCIPIENCY WITH
KINDLY CRITICISM AND ADVICE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
PREFACE
On September 15, 1906, the Training School for Backward and Feeble-minded Children at Vineland, New Jersey, opened a laboratory and a Department of Research for the study of feeble-mindedness.
A beginning was made in studying the mental condition of the children who lived in the Institution, with a view to determining the mental and physical peculiarities of the different grades and types, to getting an accurate record of what deficiencies each child had and what he was capable of doing, with the hope that in time these records could be correlated with the condition of the nervous system of the child, if he should die while in the Institution and an autopsy should be allowed.