There are another six volumes to go. However, look away now if you don't want to know the ending.
The report later became the 1912 Mental Deficiency Bill, which was passed into law in 1913, a date overshadow in the nation's celebration of the Great War. One of the main worries was that in the Boer War British troops had been found physically inferior to their enemy due to 'bad blood.' This was further added to by the Eugenics Movement, a cause taken on board by a Mr Churchill and a certain Herr Hitler, the latter to a more extreme level.
The Act allowed for those with an IQ of 70 or less would be taken into certified institutions for the mentally deficient either voluntary or against their will. Three main groups made up the institution's occupants, the idiots, imbeciles and of course the largest group, the feeble-minded. Those that had a vicious propensity for which punishment could not correct and despite having an IQ greater than 70 would also be admitted as moral imbeciles later renamed moral defectives. The relatives of the patients would be required to pay for their upkeep whilst those patients in a county asylums would be classified as pauper lunatics and instead paid for by their local parish. Patients could and would spend their whole lives in such institutions.
There might well be a sequel.