Reported weak-minded 66 Certified as lunatics and removed to an asylum 9 Epilepsy and allied conditions 53 Prisoners with a past history of threatened or attempted suicide 15 Temporary alcoholic excitement 67 “Last year the number of weak-minded was sixty, and of certified lunatics seven. It is interesting to observe how closely the figures now given approximate to those of last year.” Wormwood Scrubbs “Twenty-six prisoners of markedly feeble mind were received (four of them were each committed twice and one of the number three times during the year), and the cases of thirty-five prisoners of this class were brought to the notice of the police prior to their discharge from prison. “The chief defects noted were as follows— (_a_) Physical deficiency and deformities 126 per 1000 (_b_) Mental deficiency 25 " " (_c_) Affections of heart, lung, and principal organs 129 " " (_d_) Visual defects 49 " " (_e_) Auditory defects 14 " " “They were regularly inspected at work, and their training and general well-being were closely supervised.” Feltham “The very poor physique of the inmates on admission impresses one very much more than is shown by the figures of comparison with any so-called normal standards, as we do not separate our town and country inmates. Our country inmates, as a rule, have better physique, and though not so mentally quick are more hopeful cases when once a hold can be obtained of them. Among the town inmates one finds two classes, one showing signs of degeneration, as poor physique, narrow chest, short stature, light weight associated with a low cunning and a peculiar restlessness of their eyes, watching for every movement; and among these a high arched palate is often noticed.” Borstal “Although evil environment must of course take first place among the causes of most of these youths’ downfall, I am becoming more and more struck with the importance of physical unfitness as a determining factor. “From observations actually made among a large number of our older receptions, I find that some 60 per cent. had tried (some many times) to join either the Army or Navy. Only 15 per cent. of these had passed ‘fit.’ Many of the remaining 40 per cent., knowing that their physical defects would unfit them, had not been to a recruiting-office, so that presumably, but for physical inferiority we might have saved about one-half of those sentenced to the Borstal system.” Note.—The above remarks become the more striking when it is borne in mind that Borstal receives the best and healthiest young prisoners. Parkhurst