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Handicaps - Mental Deficiency (Code 26). Notification. Memorandum on procedure by...
Catalogue reference: ED 50/122
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- 1924-1929
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Handicaps - Mental Deficiency (Code 26). Notification. Memorandum on procedure by local authority. Definition of "early age"; memorandum by Board of Control. Second Conference on Mental After Effects of Encephalitis Lethargica. Provision for mental defectives by Poor Law Guardians. Proposed amendment to legislation. Follow-up of returns of notified children. Mental Deficiency Act 1927.
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