“Some of the institutions where only the brightest class of imbeciles are received, and where the system of industrial training has been very carefully carried out, report that from 20% to 30% of the pupils are discharged as absolutely self-supporting. In other words at other institutions, where the lower grade cases are received, the percentage of cases so discharged is considerably less. It is safe to say that not over 10% to 15% of our inmates can be made self-supporting, in the sense of going out into the community and securing and retaining a situation, and prudently spending their earnings.... But it is safe to say that over 50% of the adults of the higher grade who have been under training from childhood are capable, under intelligent supervision, of doing a sufficient amount of work to pay for the actual cost of their support, whether in an institution or at home.” The wages of the women at the Bedford Reformatory before entering prostitution as given by Davis (_133_, p. 210) have a direct bearing on the earning capacity of the higher grade feeble-minded. The Binet tests of Bedford women by Weidensall indicate that about 38% of the successive cases admitted to Bedford test in the lowest 0.5% intellectually, and 75% in the lowest 1.5% intellectually. Davis' table shows that for 110 whom she classes as mentally low grade cases at the reformatory, the median wage of those in domestic service, as claimed by the women, was nearly $4.50 before entering prostitution. These feeble-minded women, if their statements of earnings can be accepted, are therefore feeble-minded by reason of their low intelligence plus delinquency, and not by reason of inability to earn the necessities of life. The best of these mentally low grade cases earned as high as $5.00 in addition to board and lodging in domestic service and $25.00 outside of domestic service. In this country we have fewer studies of the results of training the mentally retarded in special local classes and schools. Miss Farrell has made a preliminary report of 350 boys and girls out of the 600 children formerly in the ungraded classes in New York City during the preceding 8 years (_102_). Omitting seven whose status was unknown and 10 who had died, only 6% were known to have failed to survive socially with assistance. These were in penal or other institutions. On the other hand a strict analysis of her returns shows only 28% earning $5.00 a week or more and thus possibly surviving independently. Of the above group of 333, 86 were at home, 192 employed, 31 unemployed and 3 married. In Detroit among 100 children over 16 years of age who had attended its special classes and been out of school not over 5 years, 27 had been arrested, but 39 of the boys had been at work and received an average wage of $7.00 per week, while 16 girls had averaged $3.75 in weekly wages, although few held their positions long (_97_).