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drunk and disorderly. Drinking is so prevalent that it is 

 impossible to take it as determining in itself bad moral conditions. 

 "Man a good workman, but goes on spree from time to time, is in 

 two thrift clubs and attends church," or "old soldier and widower 

 who takes a nip now and then, but is good to his girls very nice, 

 tidy, clean people," can hardly suffice for placing the described in the 

 category of moral failure. On the other hand "Very dirty, untidy 

 home... Man teetotal, keeps well at his work... China and clothes lying 

 piled about room, thick with dust; air very bad. Children sickly 

 (eldest imbecile) ; wife a slattern," seems to be a case where there is 

 a moral deficiency likely to affect the condition of the children. 



In each case we have had to trust to personal judgment, and 

 though we think we should put the bulk of the cases in the same 

 classes if we went through the book a second time, it is possible that 

 in some doubtful cases our judgment would not be the same. The 

 negative sign when it occurs means that the worse environment is 

 associated with the better condition in the children. 



Let us consider the results collected in Table VI. 



TABLE VI. 



Effect of Home Environment on Sight, Intelligence, 

 Glands, Hearing. 



