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Carnegie Institution of Washington
DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE
FOUNDED byMRS. E. H. HARRIMANCOLD
SPRING HARBOR. LONG ISLAND. N. Y.October 8, 1925
Miss Harriett E. Abbott,19 Brookes Avenue,Burlington, Vermont.
Dear Miss Abbott:
Massachusetts and Indiana have perhaps some of the best central organizations for keeping in a central place records of all sorts of inadequates who come under the care of the state or in a municipality in the state. For one thing, a central eugenics survey, if it is to be permanent, could well prepare a brief case history card to be prepared in duplicate by all of the state and municipal institutions. The institution could keep one copy and could file the second with the central survey.
The establishment of psychiatric clinics is a good thing, but it is not the principal object of a eugenics survey. A eugenics survey needs to locate, first, the inadequates in the state; second, to find out, if possible, why they exist. A preliminary classification could well be made on the (more…)
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