ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the manner in which children were brought up in these contrasting institutions; second, to describe the organization of the establishments in which the children were cared for. It develops quantitative techniques for measuring aspects of the children’s environment; and fourth and hypotheses which could subsequently be tested about factors which might account for any observed differences in the patterns of residential care. The educational provision for all children in the homes was by the Local Education Authority, and in both cases a primary and a nursery school were provided in the grounds of the establishment. Children over the age of eleven went outside to Local Authority secondary schools, which were attended also by other children living in their own homes. In several respects, the children in the paediatric wards had abilities which came midway between those of the children in the low-grade and high-grade subnormality wards respectively.
