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Anthropological Investigations. 



PART VII. 



Children who were Criminal or Vicious. 



In this class we find 72 males and only 5 females. The prepon- 

 derance of the males over the females among the children with 

 decidedly bad characters is remarkable. 



The measure table of the criminal or vicious children given below 

 will show that there is no general physical inferiority to be observed 

 in these children as a class. To this there are, however, individual 

 exceptions. 



White— Males. 



(1) All. (2) Children who are criminal or vicious. 



As to the parentage of this class of children in 19 cases, or 27.5 

 per cent., the white individuals were of American parentage. (This 

 fact accounts to a certain extent for the value of some of the average 

 physical measurements.) In 18 instances, or 26 per cent., the chil- 

 dren were of German parentage, and in 14 instances, or 20 per 

 cent., these children were Russian Jews. There was no Syrian among 

 these individuals and, what is very remarkable, considering the 

 number of children of this nationality in the institution, there was 

 only one Italian. The preponderance of American children among 

 the criminal and vicious children must be referred to the same 

 causes which I mentioned in connection with the entirely normal 

 children. 



