Excerpt from Report of the Arizona Mental Hygiene Survey, 1922: With Recommendations "If we were free from the incubus of the feebleminded, our control of venereal diseases would be infinitely simplified for whether among men or women, the spreaders of these diseases are chiefly those who are incapable of self-restraint or self-control, those who are inattentive to their physical health and fail to understand and follow the teachings upon which we depend to carry health and self-protection to the intelligent." "The worst spreader of tuberculosis is the feebleminded open or active case." "Irresponsibility is no more a personal liability alone than is communicable disease. The presence of the feebleminded or of those otherwise irresponsible and incompetent in a family or in a community constitutes the danger point in all the communicable and occupational diseases and drug addictions." "Whichever of the paths in the fields of health protection we tread, we cannot escape returning to the crossroad that binds them all together - the protection of the mind, the building of its strength, the guidance of its reactions, the unraveling of its difficulties, the destruction of its enemies." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.