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Article: Science misapplied: the eugenics age revisited.
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- December 1, 1996
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In 1935, two years after the Nazi takeover, a German high-school math textbook was published that contained the following problem: "In one region of the German Reich there are 4,400 mentally ill in state institutions, 4,500 receiving state support, 1,600 in local hospitals, 200 in homes for the epileptic, and 1,500 in welfare homes. The state pays a minimum of 10 million RM [Reich Marks]/year for these institutions.
I. What is the average cost to the state per inhabitant per year?
II. Using the result calculated from I, how much does it cost the state if:
a. 868 patients stay longer than 10 years? b. 260 patients stay longer than 20 years? c. 112 ...