186 PRINCIPLES OF STOCK-BREEDING. 



ports of the State Board of Health, the mortality of 

 children under two years was nineteen and one-half 

 per cent., and in the metropolitan district of New 

 York, in 1868, it was thirty-eight per cent. 



Dr. Newman says : " With regard to scrofulous 

 children we observe as follows : Either parent, or both, 

 we find scrofulous or tuberculous in six cases, Nos. 3, 

 5, 16, 18, 20, and 21, the offspring of which were, so 

 far, fifteen children, of which four died young, a com- 

 mon percentage ; in reference to health, we find fiv< 

 scrofulous and ten healthy, therefore we have froi 

 partly unhealthy parents two-thirds healthy children." 



" In regard to healthy or unhealthy organization, 

 we find of these one hundred and twenty-seven chil- 

 dren deviating from a perfect state, as follows." Five 

 scrofulous, above mentioned ; one case of epilepsy and 

 one of amaurosis in the same family, with twelve other 

 children not thus affected ; one case of two children 

 in a family " having only two phalangeal bones in the 

 index-finger, otherwise they are reported as healthy 

 and intelligent ; " and two deaf-mutes in one family. 

 The cases of the deaf-mutes and the child said to be 

 " simple " occurred at Panama under circumstances 

 not favorable to healthy development. In the same 

 report, 1 Dr. Newman says : " We cannot but notice 

 here a fact communicated by Dr. H. Kuapp, late pro- 

 fessor in the University of Heidelberg, which we add 

 to the statistics: In Nassau (Germany), only three 

 families established the village of Dauborn, and kept 

 entirely isolated. Their children, therefore, intermar- 



1 " Transactions of the New York State Medical Society," 1869, pp. 

 109-130. 



