THE JUKES, 



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times more frequent with the Juke women than in the average of the 

 community. 



Making a comparison between the women of the " Juke " and 

 the X blood, we find : 



"Jukes "—marriageable women, 162 ; harlots, 84 . percentage, 52. 40. 

 X blood — marriageable women, 67 ; harlots, 28 : percentage, 41. 76. 



Having the figures that establish the sexual habits of the female 

 " Jukes," and their accompanying tendency, we take up the question 

 in its details. In the following study of licentiousness, the lives of 

 the women have, by preference, been chosen, because the maternity 

 is more easily established by testimony, is much more significant of 

 the social condition of the whole class, and more profoundly affects 

 the next generation. 



Below is given a table in which the marriageable female posterity 

 of Clara, who was chaste, is compared to the marriageable female 

 posterity of Ada, a harlot, divided respectively as to the legitimate 

 and illegitimate branches. In this table the children of Clara are 



TABLE IV. 



Showing percentages of harlotry. 



divided into two classes — the first column being those who married 

 into X ; the second, the total number of her children, including 

 those who intermarried with the children of Ada and Bell. The 

 percentages show a progressive increase as you pass from left to right, 



