Pedigree illustrating stock of a +low type in which very little physical defect appears+. The total includes 61 individuals, of whom 42 are or have been paupers, eight have died in workhouse or infirmary, and two in asylums for lunatics; one child is an imbecile. On the whole the stock may be described as mentally sub-normal (not strongly so), but with a marked non-moral tendency. Of the 34 children in the last generation, ten are certainly illegitimate; 15 were, or are, being brought up in Poor Law Institutions, and nine received out-door relief with their parents. The collective period of pauperism in this case exceeds 115 years and the cost to the ratepayers is estimated at about £2,400.
Showing the case of a woman who had two husbands. With the first her children were consistently defective (deaf and dumb). With the second, one died in infancy and three are doing well. All the children of the first are, or have been, paupers.
A series showing the intimate +relation between tuberculosis infant mortality and pauperism+:--
Showing a +tuberculous family with apparently normal parents+, both of whom come from tuberculous stocks. Of their 14 children only two are normal; six are consumptive; four died in infancy. The father was one of a family of 8 of whom only he and one other survived--and that other became insane, and his wife and children became paupers in consequence.
Showing +insanity, consumption and infant mortality+; also the transmission of insanity through the apparently normal.
Showing the +survival of tuberculous+ stock by accession of strength from the normal. Only the illegitimate children and their non-sick father survive in this group.
Showing the case of a +normal woman who had two consumptive husbands+. Survival of defective strain by accession of strength from the normal.
+Consumption+ in three generations. +Male infant mortality+. Query, transmission (?) through the normal.
A series showing +transmission of mental defect through the apparently normal+.
Insanity, blindness, epilepsy and feeble-mindedness.
Insanity in three generations. Transmission through the normal in each case.
Insanity through the normal twice removed.
Insanity, epilepsy, and infant mortality--a Mendelian suggestion.