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wise nervously disordered." Forty and seventy- 

 seven hundredths per cent, were orphans; 46.78 

 per cent, had been neglected in childhood ; 75.63 

 per cent, were habitual criminals ; 22.74 P^r cent, 

 were House of Refuge boys; 17.16 per cent, were 

 of criminal families ; 22.31 per cent, were of pauper 

 stock ; 42.49 per cent, were of intemperate family; 

 35.05 per cent, were habitual drunkards ; and 

 79.41 per cent, were without trade. Of the two 

 hundred and thirty-three examined, the figures 

 show that nearly one in every four was born 

 of nervously disordered parentage. Mr. Dugdale 

 says: "This close relationship between nervous 

 disorders and crime runs parallel with the expe- 

 rience of England, where ' the ratio of insane to 

 sane criminals is thirty-four times as great as 

 the ratio of lunatics to the whole population of 

 England ; or, if we take half the population 

 to represent the adults which supply the con- 

 vict prisons we shall have the criminal lunatics 

 in excess in the high proportion of seventeen 

 to one.'"^ "It has been said that 'whatever 

 is physiologically right is morally right,' and 

 here we have a confirmation of that saying by 

 its converse, that whatever is physiologically un- 



^ The Jukes, Dugdale, revised edition, p. 86. 



