Massachusetts. Commissioners on Idiocy.
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The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925.
From the description of Field notes on the survey of idiots in Massachusetts, 1847. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 180702093
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