DISEASE. 



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Fathers and Mothers and their ages at death, and 

 severally classified them, as in the Table below. It 

 must be understood that there is nothing in the Table 

 to show how the persons were paired. The Fathers are 

 treated as a group by themselves, and the Mothers as a 

 separate group, also by themselves. 



CAUSES OF DEATH OF THE PARENTS OF THOSE FRATERNITIES IN WHICH 

 CONSUMPTION GREATLY PREVAILED. 



Very little account is given of the fraternities to which the fathers and 

 mothers belong, and nothing of interest beyond what is included in the above. 



The contrast is here most striking between the 

 tendencies of the Father and Mother to transmit a 

 serious consumptive taint to their children. The cases 

 were selected without the slightest bias in favour of 

 showing this result ; in fact, such is the incapacity to 

 see statistical facts clearly until they are pointed out, 

 that I had no idea of the extraordinary tendency on 



