XXXVIII 

 SEQUEL TO " THE JUKES " 



THERE was recently published by the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington one of 

 the most appalling documents in Man's strangely 

 mixed dossier a continuation of the well-known 

 " study in crime, pauperism, disease, and heredity " 

 which Mr. R. L. Dugdale completed in 1877 and 

 entitled " The Jukes." Mr. Dugdale was a quiet, 

 reticent Englishman, resident in New York, who 

 had a remarkable faith in political education, and 

 was keenly interested in social problems. On an 

 official visit to county jails in the State of New 

 York, he was struck by finding in " Z " county 

 six prisoners, under four family names, who were 

 blood relations in some degree. He interested 

 himself in the lineage and environment of these 

 unfortunate people, and was able to study 709 

 persons, 540 being of Juke blood, and 169 of " X " 

 blood who had married into the Juke family. He 

 found that there had been 140 criminals and offen- 

 ders, 60 habitual thieves, and so on, the degenerate 

 lot of them costing the State in seventy-five years, 

 beginning with 1800, far over a million dollars. 

 What his work showed was that, given a bad he- 

 reditary " nature " and a bad environmental " nur- 



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