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no unusual exciting cause. Ada Juke, or "Mar- 

 garet, the Mother of Criminals," was a notorious 

 harlot. Her descendants traced through five gen- 

 erations include 162 women who grew to ma- 

 turity; 74 of these were harlots. Dr. Praskovia ^^J^ 011 is 

 Tarnovskaia examined at St. Petersburg 50 pros- 

 titutes and found that 84 per cent showed various 

 signs of hereditary physical degeneration ; 82 per 

 cent had parents who were habitual drunkards; 

 1 8 per cent were the last survivors of a large 

 family. 



Most authorities are agreed that a larger pro- 

 portion of prostitutes are hereditarily abnormal 

 than are criminals. It is estimated that 47 per 

 cent of the female descendants of harlots who 

 grozv to maturity become prostitutes. The Juke 

 family, traced through six generations, shows Family. * 

 52.4 per cent; while in the normal population of 

 the entire country there is less than 2.4 per cent. 

 In other words, in 10,000 women born from the 

 normal population we should expect to find 24 

 prostitutes, while in 10,000 women born from 

 harlots we should expect to find 4,800 prosti- 

 tutes. Now, when we consider that the normal 

 population includes the abnormal, the potency of 

 the hereditary tendencies become even more ap- 

 parent than these figures indicate. 



Some are inclined to the opinion that prostitu- 

 tion is largely or wholly due to postnatal influ- 



, . . The Children of 



ences. In many instances this is true, but not Scarlet Women, 

 in all. Many children born of scarlet women have 

 been placed in early infancy in good Christian 

 homes, loved, cared for, and brought up under 

 favorable social and religious influences; yet but 



