In a message dated 20/05/2007 08:55:25 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Moral Defectives ~ criminal or vicious personalities. Unmarried Mothers also became absorbed into this category. See http://www.institutions.org.uk/poor_law_unions/imbeciles.htm _________________________________________________________ Hi Mike, Thanks for the correction. Obviously this quote is not correct and it should be; moral defectives were people who, from an early age, displayed "some permanent mental defect coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities on which punishment had little or no effect" http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/MHHGLO.HTM#Institutions18901913 I have emailed Rossbret to point this out, so that hopefully it can be changed. Regards Stan Mapstone