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PART V. 

 Separate Report on the Entirely Normal Children. 



There were found, as stated already before, among- the 1,000 

 children examined in the asylum, 58 white boys, 35 white girls, 5 

 colored boys and 7 colored girls, on whose bodies there was not 

 found even a single pronounced abnormality. 



Of the white children, 8 boys and 1 girl were born of American 

 parents, 20 boys and 24 girls born of Italian parents, 10 boys and 

 2 girls were of German, and 8 boys and 1 girl of Russian origin. 

 The remaining children out of the 58 boys and 35 girls were divided 

 in small numbers among various nationalities. 



If we reduce the above numbers to percentages, we obtain for 

 the American boys 13.8 per cent.; for the girls 2.85 per cent. of phys- 

 ically normal children from the whole number of children of this 

 nationality examined. For the Italian boys, similar proportions are 

 34.5 per cent.; for the Italian girls 68.6 per cent.; for the German 

 boys 17.2 per cent.; for the girls 5.7 per cent.; and for the Russian 

 boys 13.8 per cent.; for the girls 2.85 per cent, of the total. Now, 

 among the total of white children, these four nationalties were 

 represented as follows: 



American 

 Italian . . 

 German . 

 Russian . , 



If we compare the two classes of percentages we see that the 

 entirely normal American children are proportionately much less 

 frequent to the whole percentage in the institution than are any of 

 the other three groups of children. The reason for this, in my 

 opinion, lies in the fact that many of the children of foreigners are 

 sent to the institution for poverty simply and may proceed from 

 parents who are physically and otherwise entirely normal. Children 

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