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Anthropological Investigations. 



PART X. 



Children whose One or Both Parents Died of Consumption. 



There were found 51 of these children in the institution. Forty 

 per cent, of these were inferior in their physical measures. The ac- 

 companying table shows the principal measures of the boys of con- 

 sumptive parents compared with the general averages obtained on 

 all the white boys in the institution. 



Boys — White. 



(I) All. (2) Children both of whose parents died of consumption. 



The proportion of abnormalities to each child in this class is 

 greater than the proportion found on all the children together. 

 Thus there were to each white boy of this class 2.83 of abnormalities ; 

 to each white girl 3.3; to each colored boy 5.3; to each colored 

 girl 2. (Compare with similar figures on all the children in Part I.) 

 Of the total of 155 abnormalities of all kinds found in the children 

 of consumptive parents, 39, or 25 per cent., were of a serious char- 

 acter, and but 41, or 26 per cent., were of indifferent nature. Be- 

 sides this, in 5 cases, there were found defects of the heart. 



The condition of the teeth in all this class of children was found 

 to be as follows: In 23 per cent, of the cases the teeth were fine; in 

 61 per cent, they were good; in 16 per cent, of the instances the 

 teeth were mediocre. The condition of the teeth in the children of 

 consumptive parents is considerably inferior to the condition of the 

 teeth in the children who are physically entirely normal. 



The character of the children of consumptive parents is not very 



