RESEARCH INTO RESEARCH by
\yHAT research into mental
publication of
papers in many scientific research reports may appear some considerable time after the work has been completed. If information on current research work could be made more easily available, some of the projects might be integrated or correlated to give better statistical results. Not only might present research funds be used more effectively, but also, when the overall programme in this country was made plain, with its gaps and limitations, more money might be made available for worthwhile projects. To collect information on research, letters were sent to local authorities, regional hospital boards and universities. An encouraging response was obtained and the Committee is grateful to all those who have troubled to reply to these requests for information.
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Committee for the Scientif5he udy of Mental Deficiency decided
that 0r^e col, ect
^ts functions should be to on mental deficiency res ,arch in Britain. If the various undertaken could be and classified, it would be to issue a summary of them
information
dilated
?Sble It
Th'tlme to ^i"16-
^Committee
was
formed in 1961.
resn Vei9Ped from the steering committee for the London Conference ?ti Scientific Study of Mental frefi sp0 Clency, held in July 1960, which was in c Sored bv four professional societies, with N.A.M.H. British Committee is a member of Committee on the Mental Deficiency, Study k Wen .its first congress in CopenIt is hoDeH V1atAugust of this year. Interoti1er members of the n^tio i ior pommittee will compile similar bating to their own an
\yHAT research into mental
publication of
papers in many scientific research reports may appear some considerable time after the work has been completed. If information on current research work could be made more easily available, some of the projects might be integrated or correlated to give better statistical results. Not only might present research funds be used more effectively, but also, when the overall programme in this country was made plain, with its gaps and limitations, more money might be made available for worthwhile projects. To collect information on research, letters were sent to local authorities, regional hospital boards and universities. An encouraging response was obtained and the Committee is grateful to all those who have troubled to reply to these requests for information.
retarda-
tion is being undertaken in g. at present time? Who is do ln8 this research and where is it being ^
journals,
.
ne?
a
It is difficult to
accurate Those who one of the many mental subnormality may !mes be unaware of what is being allied subjects, or even of the -?^ other researchers in their own if that work is not yet published.
give
to these questions. UnrtWers M* research into
somCt-S d0
fielli
>
information fleeting British
Committee for the Scientif5he udy of Mental Deficiency decided
that 0r^e col, ect
^ts functions should be to on mental deficiency res ,arch in Britain. If the various undertaken could be and classified, it would be to issue a summary of them
information
dilated
?Sble It
Th'tlme to ^i"16-
^Committee
was
formed in 1961.
resn Vei9Ped from the steering committee for the London Conference ?ti Scientific Study of Mental frefi sp0 Clency, held in July 1960, which was in c Sored bv four professional societies, with N.A.M.H. British Committee is a member of Committee on the Mental Deficiency, Study k Wen .its first congress in CopenIt is hoDeH V1atAugust of this year. Interoti1er members of the n^tio i ior pommittee will compile similar bating to their own an
