180 WEEKS— HEREDITY OF EPILEPSY [April .9, 



diseases, and causes of death, if dead, of as many relatives of the 

 patient as possible. 



The data thus obtained are recorded and tabulated on a heredity 

 card, in such a manner that future additions and corrections can 

 be easily made, without destroying or detracting from the work done 

 to date. 



The history and chart are filed with the case records. A cross 

 index of place, name and trait help to locate the defective strain by 



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Fig. 2. This chart is a good illustration of the source of a large numbe.' 

 of almshouse inmates. The central figure is an epileptic woman who has 

 had seven illegitimate children all by different men; three of these died in 

 infancy and the remainder are defective. This woman, who has spent the 

 greater part of her life in the almshouse, was taken from there to keep house 

 in a miserable hut for a feeble-minded man, one of whose feeble-minded 

 sons married the feeble-minded sister of an epileptic man who is a patient 

 at the New Jersey State Village. Her daughter, who is the patient, had 

 one illegitimate child before she -was cared for by the proper authorities. 

 E, epileptic; F, feeble-minded; A, alcoholic; jV, normal; Sx, sex offender; 

 , illegal union. Case 586. 



family name, defect and locality. An index of the names of indi- 

 viduals charted facilitates the tracing of families from one pedigree 

 to another. A register is kept by counties, showing as far as pos- 

 sible the locality from which the individual comes ; the age ; the 

 institution or other care received, no care, etc., of every epileptic 

 known to us in the state. A reference index of relatives living in 

 dififereilt counties, states or foreign countries, together with the 

 name and location of any institutions in which they have been 

 treated, is also kept. 



It will be seen at a glance that data thus obtained have proved to 

 be much more significant and trustworthy than the familiar family 



