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Western Australia - Glossary Term
Idiot (1920 - 1940)
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- 1920s
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- 1940s
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- Term commonly found on child welfare records
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Idiot was a term used in the twentieth century to describe people who had intellectual disabilities. The Minister for Public Health in Western Australia defined five classes of 'defectives' in 1929. The first class was idiots, who were 'persons so deeply affected in mind as to be permanently unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers' (Hansard, 17 September 1929, p.742).
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