In 1914, when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore. Dr. Meyer's agents found 166 children in Locust Point who were sufficiently subnormal to need special training. Some were considered ''liable to recruit the ranks of the vagrants, the alcoholics, the prostitutes, and the delinquents." Others would be "drifting along at the lowest social level." All would be in one way or another detrimental to society.
Seventeen years...
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