MENTAL HYGIENE 1 VOLUME I 1917 PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC. 50 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY MRS. MILO M. ACKER, Hornell, N. Y. EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, Charlottesville, Va. DR. CHARLES P. BANCROFT, Concord, N. H. DR. LEWELLYS F. BARKER, Baltimore DR. ALBERT M. BARRETT, Ann Arbor, Mich. SURG. GEN. RUPERT BLUE, Washington DR. CHARLES L. DANA, New York C. B. DAVENPORT, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. STEPHEN P. DUGGAN, New York CHARLES W. ELIOT, Cambridge DR. CHARLES P. EMERSON, Indianapolis W. H. P. FAUNCE, Providence KATHERINE S. FELTON, San Francisco DR. WALTER E. FERNALD, Waverley, Mass. JOHN H. FINLEY, Albany IRVING FISHER, New Haven MATTHEW C. FLEMING, New York HOMER FOLKS, New York DR. CHARLES H. FRAZIER, Philadelphia JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS, Baltimore ARTHUR T. HADLEY, New Haven DR. WILLIAM HEALY, Boston DR. ARTHUR P. HERRING, Baltimore HENRY L. HIGGINSON, Boston DR. AUGUST HOCH, Santa Barbara, Cal. WILLIAM J. HOGGSON, Greenwich, Conn. DR WALTER B. JAMES, New York DR. CHARLES G. KERLEY, New York JULIA C. LATHROP, Washington WILLIAM CHURCH OSBORN, New York DR. FREDERICK PETERSON, New York GIFFORD PINCHOT, Washington DR. ROBERT L. RICHARDS, Talmage, Cal. DR. ELMER E. SOUTHARD, Boston DR. HENRY R. STEDMAN, Brookline, Mass. DR. CHARLES F. STOKES, Briarcliff, N. Y. DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH, Baltimore CHIEF PURPOSES: To work for the conservation of mental health; to promote the study of mental disorders and mental defects in all their forms and relations; to obtain and disseminate reliable data concerning them; to help raise the standards of care and treatment; to help co-ordinate existing agencies, Federal, State and local, and to organize in every State an affiliated Society for Mental Hygiene. 1 OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC. 50 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY EDITORIAL BOARD THOMAS W. SALMON, M.D. Medical Director, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene FRANKWOOD E. WILLIAMS, M.D. Associate Medical Director, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene MENTAL HYGIENE will aim to bring dependable information to everyone whose interest or whose work brings him into contact with mental problems. Writers of authority will present original communications and reviews of important books; noteworthy articles in periodicals out of convenient reach of the general public will be republished; reports of surveys, special investigations, and new methods of prevention or treatment in the broad field of mental hygiene and psychopathology will be presented and discussed in as non-technical a way as possible. It is our aim to make MENTAL HYGIENE indispensable to all thoughtful readers. Physicians, lawyers, educators, clergymen, public officials, and students of social problems will find the magazine of especial interest. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene does not necessarily endorse or assume responsibility for opinions expressed or statements made. Articles presented are printed upon the authority of their writers. The reviewing of a book does not imply its recommendation by The National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Though all articles in this magazine are copyrighted, others may quote from them freely provided appropriate credit be given to MENTAL HYGIENE. Subscription: Two dollars a year; fifty cents a single copy. Correspondence should be addressed and checks made payable to "Mental Hygiene," or to The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc., 50 Union Square, New York City. Copyright, 1917, by The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc. ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS PAGE What the state hospital can do in mental hygiene, by William L. Russell, M. D. The subnormal child-a survey of the school population in the Locust Point dis- Efficiency and inefficiency-a problem in medicine, by Pearce Bailey, M. D.... 196-210 Standardized fields of inquiry for clinical studies of borderline defectives, by How may we discover the children who need special care, by Robert M. Yerkes 252-259 Feeblemindedness as seen in court, by Victor V. Anderson, M. D.. . . . . . Community value of the outpatient department of the hospital for the insane, by (NEURO-PSYCHIATRY AND THE WAR) Use of institutions for the insane as military hospitals, by Thomas W. Salmon, 354-363 The broader psychiatry and the war, by Herman M. Adler, M. D.. Relation of psychology to military activities, by Robert M. Yerkes. The state hospital and the war, by William A. White, M. D..... Problem of mental disease in the Canadian Army, by Clarence B. Farrar. Some experiences in the German Red Cross, by Clarence A. Neymann, M. D... 392–396 Effects of high explosives upon the central nervous system; a review of Mott's Lettsomian lectures, 1916, and G. Elliot Smith's "Shell-shock and its les- |