The Mental Deficiency Act 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 28) was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom creating provisions for the institutional treatment of people deemed to be "feeble-minded" and "moral defectives".
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Nov 2, 2019 · This Act sets out arrangements for dealing with those considered to be 'mentally defective': 'idiots', 'imbeciles', 'feeble-minded persons' and ...
Mental Deficiency Act 1913
Originally published: 1913
Citation: 3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 28
Repealed by: Mental Health Act 1959
Royal assent: 15 August 1913
Jan 1, 2007 · Supporters of the 1913 MDA tended to view mental deficiency as a national problem but the implementation of this legislation was a task for ...
The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913: The General Scope of Its Provisions. G. E. Shuttleworth, M.D., M.R.C.S. ... This article is distributed under the terms of the ...
The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : together with the regulations and rules made under the provisions of that Act, the departmental circulars, the Elementary ...
The 1913 Mental Deficiency Act drew on a trend away from heterogeneous asylum populations towards sophisticated models of classification and segregation. This ...
In line with this thinking, the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act set up a new 'Board of Control'. It specified that 'mental defectives' should either be closely ...
The Mental Deficiency Bill gives the President of the Board of Education power to make Regulations which are not required to be laid on the Table of this House, ...
Mar 20, 2016 · The legal definition of Mental Deficiency in the 1913 Act was as follows. IDIOTS – persons in whose case there exists mental defectiveness of ...
1913 Act was the first comprehensive legislation of its kind enacted in the West. In parts of the United States, legislation for retarded people was passed at ...