A SWEDISH FARMERS LINEAGE 



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that we have in this district a large quantity of Brachycephali (25.6 % amongst 

 schoolchildren in the district). Persons with brown eyes appear here, more than 

 in most other parts of Sweden. Several circumstances show that this race blend 

 has been decidedly disadvantageous. 



In the family there is considerable drunkenness, neurosis, idiocy, weak in» 

 telligence and criminality etc. (see below). Syphilis appears only seldom, tuber* 

 culosis is comparatively rare. In spite of the unmistakable degeneration which 

 appears in the family, mortality is not specially high, in any case not greater than 

 the average rate for the whole kingdom, according to my calculation. Thus we 

 have here an example, which shows that a veritable badly constituted stock, in 

 spite of unmistakable nervousspsychical degeneration can increase, and spread at 

 home as well as abroad, in a very remarkable manner, a circumstance worth noting 

 from a race^hygienic point»of*view. 



We must not take it for granted, that such degeneration in itself, will dimi» 

 nish the family. 



TABLE 1. 



SPECIFICATION OF MATERIAL. 



Number of descendants 



Other persons married into the Lister family 



Further additions (persons returned, belonging to branches of the family who had 



previously removed from the district) 



Illegitimate children 



Total 



My material comprises, as table 1 shows, 2,232 persons, partly offspring 

 of the ancestral parents, and partly 241 other persons who married into the 

 family. The nearest relations of the latter^named persons I have not included in 

 the present investigations (though they are mentioned and described in my original 

 work) so as not to have the material heterogeneous. 



TABLE 2. 



NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS IN THE LISTER FAMILY AND FREQUENCY OF MARRIAGES WITH RELATIONS. 



Table 2 shows, that marriages with relations have occurred often amongst 

 the 377 households, which the material comprises. Marriages with cousins and 

 second cousins have occurred at the rate of 20 %, with more distant relations 

 more than 14 %, thus marriages with near or distant relations show a rate of 

 55 %, a specially note^worthy fact, to which I shall revert. 



