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Mental Deficiency and Social Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. O. Lewis
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This paper is based upon the data obtained in a survey undertaken to ascertain the incidence of mental deficiency in England and Wales. My observations will be restricted to those data that are of most interest to students of social medicine.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 395 , April 1948 , pp. 258 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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References

(1) Report of the Mental Deficiency Committee, Part IV. H.M. Stationery Office, 1929.Google Scholar
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(3) A Clinical and Genetic Study of 1,280 Mental Defectives. Medical Research Council Publication, 1938.Google Scholar
(4) British Medical Journal, Social Surveys, November 8, 1947.Google Scholar
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