The Committee for the Study of the Care and Education of Physically Handicapped Children in the Public Schools of the City of New York

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Excerpt from The Committee for the Study of the Care and Education of Physically Handicapped Children in the Public Schools of the City of New York: Report of the Sub-Committee on Orthopedically Handicapped Children, 1941From earliest times the lot of the cripple has been a hard one. Among primitive peoples the cripple was often abandoned to perish Of neglect. Destruction of deformed children existed among the Carib tribes of the Antilles. The Aztecs sacrificed deformed persons in time of famine and need and at the death of kings and great men. Crippled infants were abandoned or killed by various tribes living on the islands of the Pacific and in Australia. In the kingdom Of Assinie, on the Gold Coast, children with six fingers on either or both hands were buried alive. Among the indo-germanic peo ples, exposure of deformed infants to the elements was a custom of frequent occurrence. In the early law of Northern Germany the right of the populace to kill monsters and deformed persons is often mentioned. In early Persia all deformities were regarded as the work of the Evil One.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.