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of American parents, on the other hand, are more frequently sent 

 here for real destitution, or as a result of various transgressions and 

 such children are more liable to proceed from parents who are 

 themselves not physically normal and who left to their children as an 

 inheritance various physical irregularities and predispositions. 



The family history of the children who are without any physical 

 abnormalities is very clear. Among the parents of all these 105 

 children only 2 persons were intemperate, 2 persons insane, and 

 2 persons who deserted the family. In 60 instances among the 

 white children, and in 2 instances among the colored, both of the 

 parents of the child were still living, and in only 4 cases of the 

 white and 3 cases of the colored children were both parents dead. 

 Among the causes of death of the deceased parents, so far as we 

 could ascertain, 9 persons died of consumption, 2 of meningitis, and 

 all the remaining of acute diseases or of accidents. 



The measurements of the children without any physical abnor- 

 malities, when compared with the average measurements of all the 

 children who are in the institution, are almost generally, at least so 

 with the boys, superior. This point will be best appreciated by the 

 perusal of the following table: 



Boys — White. 



