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these intents, is so common among hysterical persons 

 that it may be considered almost an indication of the 

 existence of the condition. 



Although statistics from every country show that 

 women contribute a very small share of the serious 

 crime of a nation probably not more than ten per cent., 

 yet a careful physical and anatomical examination 

 of the women who have led immoral lives discloses 

 the fact that it is they, rather than the occasional 

 female offender, who exhibit a large proportion of 

 those deviations from the normal type, which are 

 associated with men classed by Lombroso as born 

 criminals. According to this mode of calculation, on 

 the biometric basis, there is but a very slight difference 

 in criminality between the two sexes, leaving perhaps 

 a slight predominance of criminal instincts among 

 women. The history of the " Jukes " family, already 

 referred to, bears out this classification. 



Instances of families which, generation after genera- 

 tion, are an expense to the community and a danger 

 to the race are given in the Poor Law number of 

 the Eugenics Review (November 1910). It is there 

 shown that a large proportion of the so-called able- 

 bodied paupers are the victims of congenital defect 

 either of mind or body. Pedigree after pedigree is 

 given illustrating the recurrence of persistent pauper- 

 ism for three, four or five generations in one family 

 or group of allied families. As an instance we may 

 take a case where the history of five generations com- 

 prising in individuals is set forth. This total is 

 made up of 34 chronic or permanent paupers, 2 1 

 occasional paupers, 21 children who died young, while 



