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  • Collection: Pedigrees of Inmates at the Vermont School for Feebleminded Children, 1925

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This pedigree describes a female patient with Downs Syndrome who was 9 years old at the time of her admission to the institution in 1922. Note the assigned cause: "Mother had headaches and brooded over news of insane stepsister." In the early 20th…

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The inmate described in this pedigree was 16 years old when she was committed to the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children in 1922. She had already given birth to two children. Her defect is stated to be "Two illegitimate children; sex." …

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This brief pedigree describes an inmate who was committed to the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children in 1920, when she was 14 years old. The "Defects" attributed to her are horrifying: "Sex; Venereal, Syphilis and Gonorrhea; Raped by…
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