THE CHARTS SCROFULA PHTHISIS PULMONALIS. 75 



men were, as a class, the single men. The relation to height, it will be seen, follows 

 closely that to age ; that is to say, we find a rapid increase and a corresponding decline 

 in each. 



The numerical order of the nativities is very different from that of the preceding 

 chart ; for, whereas no cases of chronic rheumatism were found among the natives of 

 southern countries, to wit, Soutli America, Spain, Mexico, and Italy, syphilis was 

 found to prevail to the greatest degree among them. The position of American- 

 born white men in the list, and their ratio, so far below the average, are noteworthy ; 

 but we should not forget that the natives of foreign countries, who were examined, did 

 not, in all probability, as fairly represent the better class of their countrymen as did 

 the Americans ; this especially as regards vice and morality. Whether physically they 

 represented their countrymen better is quite another question. 



To compare the charts a little more concisely, we may fomiulate, in a manner, 

 the indications of each, as follows : The typical syphilitic man, so to speak, is shown 

 to be the unmarried man, of light complexion, twenty to twenty-five years old, five feet 

 three inches to five feet seven inches in height, and a native of a southern countiy, or, 

 possibly, of Great Britain ; while the typical rheumatic man is the married man, of 

 dark complexion, over forty years of age, very tall, and a native of a northern country. 



CHART III. 



SCROFULA. 



Scrofula, unlike either chi-onic rheumatism or syphilis, is shown to have no very 

 definite relation to age, height, or nativity. We do not find the usual regular increase 

 or diminution with increase of age or height, but in their stead a fluctuation, apparently 

 due to the element of chance in the observations, which, as has been more fully set 

 forth in another place, is an element of considerable importance where the rejections 

 were comparatively few. 



Although scrofula is an inherited malady, few men under twenty years of age 

 were found sufificiently affected by it to warrant their rejection. At twenty to twenty- 

 five, however, the disease was found to be fully established, that is to say, sufficiently 

 so to warrant rejection ; and the fact that the ratio for all ages above twenty was nearly 

 constant shows that the disease does not, at least to any great extent, make its first 

 appearance in after-life. Increased prevalence among the married and among those 

 of light complexion is the rule, and not the exception, as has been explained. 



CHART IV. 



PHTHISIS PULMONALIS. 



{Including chronic disease of the lung.) 



So (much of interest attaches to, and so much has been said and written on, tliis 

 disease, that any rehable statistics tending to elucidate the subject will. no doiibt be 

 of almost universal interest. The thi-ee charts devoted to tliis disease, namely, Charts 



