CHAPTER XXXVI 

 EUGENICS AND EUTHENICS' 



PAUL POPENOE AND ROSWELL H. JOHNSON 



Emphasis has been given, in several of the foregoing chapters, to 

 the desirability of inheriting a good constitution and a high degree 

 of vigor and disease-resistance. It has been asserted that no measures 

 of hygiene and sanitation can take the place of such inheritance. It 

 is now desirable to ascertain the limits within which good inheritance 

 is effective, and this may be conveniently done by a study of the lives 

 of a group of people who inherited exceptionally strong physical con- 

 stitutions. 



The people referred to are taken from a collection of histories of 

 long life made by the Genealogical Record Office of Washington. 

 One hundred individuals were picked out at random, each of whom had 

 died at the age of ninety or more, and with the record of each indi- 

 vidual were placed those of all his brothers and sisters. Any family 

 was rejected in which there was a record of wholly accidental death 

 (e.g., families of which a member had been killed in the Civil War). 

 The 100 families, or more correctly fraternities or sibships, were 

 classified by the number of children per fraternity, as follows: 



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1 From P. Popenoe and R. H. Johnson, Applied Eugenics (copyright 1918). 

 Used by special permission of the publishers, The Macmillan Company. 



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