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Leprosy in India. 



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condition of the children of the lepers in the Asylum was carefully inquired into. 

 The following table is a summary of the information thus obtained : — 



TABLE XXI. 



Table shoufing the condition of the Children (101) 0/ 51 of the leprous 



inmates of the Asylum. 



From this table we learn that the 52 married lepers in the Asylum have 

 produced a total of 101 children. The numbers as stated in the table 

 are 103, but a deduction of two has to be made, as two are entered in 

 both columns, being the offspring of marriages in the Asylum. Of these 69 

 are alive. These 52 lepers have contributed a permanent addition of 17, 

 or 32-6 per cent., to the population under review ; for 52 of the children 

 must be deducted as merely replacing their parents, so that the possible in- 

 crease of lepers due to them is 17. It is, however, extremely unlikely that all 

 the children should live, or that all that live should turn out leprous, so that the 



