

jo Anthropological Investigations. 



tioned in connection with the children who were entirely free from 

 physical abnormalities. 



There were made similar inquiries as to the ability at learning and 

 character of the children who show many abnormalities, as were 

 made with the other groups of children. Pains were taken to se- 

 cure these data as reliable as possible. 



These inquiries reveal that, as to ability at learning, there are 

 only 55 or about 63 per cent, of the children of this class who are in 

 this respect up to the average of public school children, 28 indi- 

 viduals, or a little over 32 per cent., are of inferior abilities, while four 

 children are exceptionablly bright. It would seem from these 

 figures that numerous abnormalities of the body stand frequently 

 in connection with inferior abilities of the mind. However, such a 

 combination is far from general, and occasionally a body offering 

 many abnormalities is associated with very good mental powers. 



As to the character of the children of this class, so far as we can 

 judge from the causes which brought the child here, it is inferior to 

 the children who are physically free of abnormalities. The per- 

 centage of children with five or more abnormalities who were sent to 

 the asylum for some bad conduct was 30 per cent, of the total, which 

 is an equal proportion to that which we have seen with the physi- 

 cally normal children. But there are two points of difference be- 

 tween the two classes of individuals. In the first place, almost all 

 the younger children with many abnormalities, that is children be- 

 low 10 years of age, were sent here for destitution. Out of the re- 

 maining children of this class, that is, those after 10 years of age, 

 a very great proportion were misbehaved individuals. This fact 

 was noticed to a much smaller extent among children free from phy- 

 sical defects. The second point of difference consists in the char- 

 acter of the offences. I gave in Part V the offences of the physi- 

 cally normal individuals. They were: in 12.4 per cent, of the 105 

 normal children truancy; in 8.6 per cent, disobedience; in 3 per cent, 

 ungovernable ; in 2 per cent, running away ; in 1 per cent, each stay- 

 ing out, begging, petit larceny and pilfering. Of the 87 children 

 with five or more abnormalities: in 11.5 per cent, of the cases the 

 children were brought here for disobedience; in 10.3 per cent, for 

 truancy; in 5.7 per cent. for petit larceny; in 1.15 per cent, for pilfer- 



