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Leprosy in India. 



PART IL 



TABLE XIX. 



Lepers with Lejpro'ULS Relatives. 



The figures in the table seem to indicate that there is a strongly marked 

 tendency in the disease to follow the female line of descent. Of the 17 

 persons born of leprous parents, both parents were affected in 4 instances. The 

 father alone was leprous in 3, whereas the mother alone was leprous in no 

 less than 10— giving percentages of 23-5, 17-6, and 58-8 respectively on the total 

 17 cases. Taking all cases in which parents or parents' relatives are affected, 

 we find 10 cases in which the father or father's relatives are leprous, and 17 in 

 which the disease was present on the maternal side. 



Nineteen of the 28 cases with leprous relatives were males and 9 females. 

 Of the former there were 9 cases in which the father or father's relatives were 

 affected, 12 in which the mother or mother's relatives, 7 cases in which 

 brothers', and 2 cases in which a sister or sister's relatives were leprous : among the 

 latter, the father was affected in 1 instance, the mother in 5, a brother and 

 sister in 1 and a son in 1 ; among the males, there were 15 cases in which male 



