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Anthropological Investigations. 



PART IX. 



Orphans or Children whose Both Parents are Dead. 



Of this class of individuals there were found 38 in all in the asylum. 

 In all probability many of these individuals carry some serious hered- 

 itary predisposition. About 40 per cent, of these children were 

 found to be subaverage in their principal physical measurements. I 

 will give here a few rows of figures which will show the differences 

 in the measurements of this class of children from the general aver- 

 ages obtained on all the white children of the same sex in the asy- 

 lum. Only the boys are in a sufficient number to be compared. 



Boys — White. 



In the number of their abnormalities the orphan children exceed 

 the general averages found in the asylum. Thus among the boys 

 of this class the proportion of abnormalities to each child was 3.2; in 

 the white female, 2.2; in the colored male, 4.25; in the colored 

 female, 2.5. Most of these proportions are somewhat above those 

 which we have seen in Part I, and which were obtained on the 

 total numbers of the children of same sexes and color, Out of the 

 total of 121 abnormalities of all kinds found on the 38 orphan chil- 

 dren, 28 or about 23 per cent, were of serious character, while 30 or 

 about 25 per cent, were indifferent abnormalities. 



The teeth in the orphan children were found in 40 per cent, of the 

 cases to be fine, in 45 per cent, to be good and in 16 per cent, of cases 



