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Feeble minded???
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Michele | Report | 19 May 2006 19:23 |
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I have an ancestor who appears on the 1891 census aged 10 as a 'scholar', on the 1901 census he is 20 and 'feeble minded'. He died in 1919 of Tuberculosis in the Hants County Lunatic Asylum. Was feeble minded a specific medical condition? Anyone any ideas/thoughts. Many thanks Michele |
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Gwen | Report | 19 May 2006 19:35 |
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I have worked at a learning disability hospital in charge of medical case notes and it is an old fashioned way of refering to a person who has learning disablity or suffers from mental health problems. It is a term that is no longer allowed to be used. |
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Michele | Report | 19 May 2006 19:38 |
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Many thanks Gwen, presumably these days he would of had a good life, sad to think he ended up in a lunatic asylum. Good things have moved on. Michele |
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Heather | Report | 19 May 2006 19:40 |
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Yes, poor little devil, may have just had something like Downs syndrome and was stuck in a hospital with adults. Dreadful to think of it. |
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Gwen | Report | 19 May 2006 19:52 |
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Having seen all the medical notes I was amazed to see some of the reasons peeps were put in luntic aylums as they referred to in those days. Lots of them should not have been in them unmarried mums were shut away and had there babies taken away from them it opened my eyes. I am glad times have change and we have moved on and we do not use horrible terms anymore. |
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No Longer Available | Report | 19 May 2006 20:18 |
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I have a relation who was considered to be an idiot from childhood.Poor little man. |
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