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THE JUKES. 



with that of the " Jukes," we find seven and a half times more pau- 

 perism among their women than among the average of women for 

 the State, among their men nine times more, while the average for 

 both sexes of the " Juke " and X blood together gives six and three 

 quarter times more paupers than the average of the State. Accord- 

 ing to the records of poor-houses and city alms-houses of the State, 

 the men are in excess of the women, the ratio for 187 1 being as 100 

 women is to no men ; of the "Jukes " this ratio is as 100 to 124, 

 but when we look at the alms-house relief of the X blood the ratio 

 is inverted, the women being to the men as 100 is to 80. Thus, 

 while the " Jukes " follow the general rule of our State pauperism as 

 respects the comparison of the sexes, the X blood follows a reverse 

 one. Why this is I cannot say, unless it be that the tendency of the 

 women is to follow the condition of their husbands, which involves 

 in the net of pauperism those women marrying into the " Juke " 

 pauper stock, while the " Juke " women, seeking and finding 

 husbands not so involved, are withdrawn from the pauper circle. 

 That this inversion of ratios is not an accident is proved by the 

 fact that the out-door relief of the X blood shows the same relation- 

 ship, though in a less degree, the ratio being as 100 women are to 

 90 men. 



In table VII. is presented the statistics of diseases, malformations 



TABLE VII. 

 Diseases^ Malformations and Injuries, 



