FACTS ABOUT THE KALLIKAK FAMILY 71 



of our cities were removed to-morrow and model tene- 

 ments built in their places, we would still have slums in 

 a week's time, because we have these mentally defec- 

 tive people who can never be taught to live otherwise 

 than as they have been living. Not until we take care 

 of this class and see to it that their lives are guided 

 by intelligent people, shall we remove these sores from 

 our social life. 



There are Kallikak families all about us. They are 

 multiplying at twice the rate of the general population, 

 and not until we recognize this fact, and work on this 

 basis, will we begin to solve these social problems. 



The following pictures from life have been prepared 

 by our field worker, Miss Elizabeth S. Kite, and besides 

 giving an idea of the family, they will also show some- 

 thing of her method, and enable the reader to judge of 

 the reliability of the data. 



On one of the coldest days in winter the field worker 

 visited the street in a city slum where three sons of 

 Joseph (Chart IX, section D) live. She had previously 

 tested several of the children of these families in the 

 public school and found them, in amiability of charac- 

 ter and general mentality, strikingly like our own 

 Deborah, lacking, however, her vitality. There was 



