Wayne County Aids The Handicapped

34 BUILDINGS OCCUPY PART OF 1,000 ACRES SOUTH OF NORTHVILLE

700 Boys and Girls are given Training That Fits Them to Find Worthy Place In Society An institutional neighbor of Northville and the latest to develop is the Wayne County Training School, which occupies a little more then a thousand acres of land approximately 2 miles south of the village. Extending 2 miles along the north side of Phoenix road from the Northville-Plymouth road to the Beck road. On this site there has been erected in the last 7 years a community of 34 buildings housing today 700 children. The Wayne County Training School is one product of the changing conditions that has resulted from the tremendous growth of Wayne county, and its center the City of Detroit with the social problems that come from such increased condensation of life in all its aspects and the particular problems that tend the less well endowed and the mentally and physically handicapped. The recent White House Conference on Child Health and Protection called by President Hoover in the fall of 1930 estimates that of the 10,000,000 handicapped children in the United States by far the largest proportion are handicapped by intellectual sub normality, some 4,500,000 of the entire number of the handicapped. Some of these intellectually subnormal children those of the lowest capacity, the idiots and imbeciles are bound necessarily to become permanent custodial charges in state institutions for the feeble minded. The greater...