Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No. 1 . . .

1908 - The Feeble-Minded - In a continued attempt to comprehend the changing social standards and attitudes prevailing relative to this historic record of the dock and its environs, the following are accounts (highlighting the work of the Salvation Army locally) as published within the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission on on the Care & Control of the Feeble-Minded - Volume II - [1096] [499] : -

Thomas Jackson, Esq. L.R.C.S., Ed., L.S.A. the late Assistant Medical Officer of Glamorgan County Asylum gave the following evidence to the Commission within a Statement of Evidence : - 'Twelve years ago I was led to make some calculations on the number of imbeciles and idiots, not under treatment, living in the United Kingdom. The figures appeared in the Lancet.' The Chairman replied that you estimate the number of idiots and feeble-minded at 70,000? 'Yes' was the reply! 'Below I append a Table shewing the institutions that I recommend and the type and classes I should place in each.'