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white children are more likely to be begotten with physical deficiencies, 

 yet later in life they will not undergo so many pathological processes 

 which give rise to physical abnormalities, as will the negro children. 

 Rachitis seems to be particularly more frequent in the colored. 



A large number of the lighter congenital abnormalities in no 

 way reflects badly on the individual's history, and dees not show any 

 predispositions of the child. Science has been as yet unable to trace 

 to their real causes such atypical characters or irregularities as those 

 of the ears, or those of the toes, or some of those of the teeth, the 

 palate or the uvula; and experience teaches plentifully that there is 

 but very little or no practical significance to these characters. 



The sum total of my observations on the abnormalities of the 

 inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum leads me to conclude, 

 as before stated, that we have here to deal with a class of children, 

 the large majority of whom, so far as physical abnormalities are 

 concerned, are fairly average individuals. 



There are many irregularities in the children which are due .0 

 neglect and can and ought to be corrected. 



A small proportion of the inmates apparently are the children of 

 unhealthy parents, as a result of which descendance they have fallen 

 subject to states of malnutrition or to rachitis, which conditions left 

 them with numerous physical abnormalities. 



I found no single child, whom I could conscientiously term a 

 thorough physical degenerate. 



To conclude this subject I will give here a table illustrating the 

 proportions of congenital and acquired abnormalities according to 

 the different parts of the body. 



