The natural homes of such girls and women are often lacking both in helpful discipline or moral protection and to leave them in full charge of the parents is often the worst possible neglect.

This Colony Plan is described in an article by Charles Bernstein, entitled "Colony and Extra-institutional Care for the Feeble-minded," published in _Mental Hygiene_ for January, 1920.

The needed supervision, protection and care for higher-grade morons is difficult to secure unless some form of official control is initiated.

That official control is often only available for those who have already suffered some serious consequence of their abnormal condition.

What we need to work out is a better and more effective means for helping the family to do what is needed for the mentally handicapped child.
=Mental Hygiene.=--No adequate treatment of this vital movement can be given here, but the family need for social provisions along this line must be urged.