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times as great, and that the C.O.S. might obtain 

 a far larger band of workers who would investigate 

 in like manner the condition of fourteen thousand 

 instead of fourteen hundred school children in Great 

 Britain. The machinery now exists for the medical 

 examination of school children, but from the point 

 of view of the eugenist it will be of comparatively 

 little value for measuring the effects o( environment 

 unless the children are followed into their homes, 

 and information is collected and recorded as has 

 been done by the C.O.S. in Edinburgh. 



II. A Record of Measurements &c. for 1905 of 

 children attending the public schools in Glasgow, 

 lent to us by the Scottish Education Department. 

 We have from this' source information about 72,857 

 school children ; among other facts recorded are the 

 age, height, weight, occupation of the father and 

 employment of the mother. 



III. An account of the children in the special 

 schools in Manchester, kindly provided for us by 

 Miss Dendy. Among other information the health 

 and intelligence of the brothers and sisters of the 

 defective child under consideration are given, and 

 the drinking and health of the parents. 



The main points to which we have turned our 

 attention up to the present time are : 



( 1 ) The influence of the employment of mothers 

 on the physique of their children. 



(2) The influence of the occupation of the father 

 on the physique of the children. 



(3) The influence of drink in the parents on the 



