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ate man and a baker by trade," always quarreling with his wife — 

 " used to beat the mother and she always went about with a face 

 very much bruised." This mating yields i normal to 3 defective 

 in addition to others that are not known. In the second case the 



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Fig. 10. The picture presented by this pedigree is quite different 

 from the foregoing. The mother shows signs of epilepsy and has a cer- 

 tainly epileptic sister. The father belongs to a strain that shows insanity. 

 His brother is in the state hospital and he himself is always quarrelsome 

 and at times violent. " The whole family was a disturbing element in the 

 town where they lived. The girls were immoral and the boys, who were 

 implicated in a couple of local robberies, could never be trusted; so the 

 people in the neighborhood were greatly relieved when they moved away." 

 One boy is now at the State Village for Epileptics. His sister. No. 4, was 

 at the state Home for girls and No. i is in an insane asylum. This whole 

 fraternity seems to be unstable, neuropathic. Case 469. 



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Fig. II. This is a pedigree chart of a negro family whose maintenance 

 is costing the State of New Jersey no small sum. The central mating 

 shows an alcoholic man (who has an epileptic grand niece) married to an 

 epileptic woman. Her father, and two of his sibs were epileptic. The 

 woman has an epileptic sister and an epileptic cousin. She has one nephew 

 in the state prison at Trenton, a brother-in-law in the state hospital there, 

 two nephews in a state reform school and a daughter at the State Village. 

 By another man she has a drinking immoral daughter and had another 

 daughter who died of tuberculosis, leaving a son who at 17 has tuberculosis. 

 Several of these feeble-minded and epileptic are still at large. Case 1643. 



insanity (of the father) is said to be due to a fall after his 

 marriage. This defect may be purely traumatic but, on the other 

 hand, he has an epileptic brother and a feeble-minded niece, so 



