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Scope and Content Note
The series contains pamphlets and article reprints from mental health journals discussing topics relating to mental deficiency including patient diagnosis, methods and costs of care and training, epilepsy, and delinquency of mental deficients. A large portion of the records relate to Eugenics, the science of improving hereditary traits particularly through the social control of mating and reproduction.
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