THE BEADSHAW LECTURE 



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occur, with lucid intervals, in which children are 

 conceived only to be a burden on the rates, the 

 State may perhaps determine to interfere to pro- 

 tect itself in the future. 



By the kindness of Dr. Mott I show two 

 pedigrees indicating the classes among which 

 State interference might be considered justifiable. 



Admitted to Cane Hill for 



attempted suicide by poison ; 



Patient IV 



An epileptic ; attempted 

 suicide in 1874 by cutting 

 her left arm ; was taken 

 to Colney Hatch, where 

 she still remains 



Committed sui- 

 cide by cutting 

 his left arm 

 and dying from 

 haemorrhage. 



Father II 



Mother III 



Father sane 



Mother died insane 



Four children (three males 



and one female) ; all con- Mother died 



fined in lunatic asylums i 



Father I Mother committed suicide; cut her 

 left arm and died from haemorrhage 



One of these shows suicide in four generations 



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