Feeble-mindedness may affect
the moral nature only, rendering the person selfish, untruthful,
obscene, or unemployable. The Act of 1899 controls feeble-minded
children; many such become paupers, criminals, prostitutes, etc.
=Mental Deficiency and Lunacy Act, 1913.=--Those included under this Act
are idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, and moral imbeciles. The
parents or guardians of such children between the ages of five and
sixteen years must provide for them education and proper care. If they
are unable to do so, the School Boards or Parish Councils must do so.
XLII.--DEMENTIA: ACUTE, CHRONIC, SENILE, AND PARALYTIC
In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has
become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital
or comes on very early in life.
=Acute Dementia.=--This is a condition of profound melancholy or stupor,
which arises from sudden mental shock, the mind being, as it were,
arrested and fixed in abstraction on the event.
=Chronic Dementia= is generally caused by the gradual action on the mind
of grief or anxiety, by severe pain, mania, apoplexy, paralysis, or
repeated attacks of epilepsy.
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