Places of social poverty and service dependency of people with intellectual disabilities:11“Intellectual disabilities” refers to learning disabilities, intellectual handicaps, mental handicaps, mental retardation (Special Olympics, 2003, cover page), developmental disabilities, and, lately in the US, cognitive disabilities. In this paper, I have used “feebleminded” or “mentally deficient”, whichever term was used during the time period referenced.a case study in Baltimore, Maryland · Study