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ranged or the blood relations of those who have been thus affected, 

 while of the 28 who have begun to drink at ages above 15, only 

 five belong to that class. The age at which these 53 persons had 

 the habit fixed was, one at 9 years old who is insane ; five at 16, 

 one of whom is of defective mind ; five at 17, and six at 18, three of 

 whom are insane or epileptic, and one whose mother died of paraly- 

 sis ; while, of the twenty-nine who are 2 1 and under when the 

 habit became fixed, eleven are either mentally deranged or be- 

 long to 7ieurotic stock, and eleven are the children of habitual 

 drunkards. Of the twenty-four who became habitual drunkards 

 after they have reached their majority only four are afflicted with 

 brain disease or belong to such families, and 7 are the children of 

 habitual drunkards. 



In the first three tables we find 6 cases where the mothers were 

 intemperate. Of these four are mentally defective or deranged, 

 the other two having blood relations who suffered from nervous 

 disease. While the average age at which the total number began 

 drinking is 14.72 years, that of these six is 12 years, and the average 

 age at which the former became habituals is 23.04 years, of the 

 latter it is 17.66 or five and one half years sooner. Whether these 

 facts indicate that intemperance in the mother is more destructive 

 than in the father, or that nervous disorders are a cause of inebriety 

 or the reverse can hardly be decided by such meager facts. 

 It is also noticeable that although the occasional drunkards and 

 the temperate make an aggregate of 16, or nearly one-third as many 

 as the habituals, not one of them is insane or nervously deranged ; 

 while of the 53 habituals 8 are so affected. 



On a comparison of tables XIII. and XIV., it appears that in the 

 former, which contains a list of those inebriates with whom prosti- 

 tution has not taken place at an early age, or who have declined to 

 make any statement respecting this matter, we find that, while the 

 average age at which they begin inebriety is six months earlier than 

 in the other table, the average age at which they become habituals 

 is 24.52, while in table XIV., where we find the average age at which 

 prostitution begins is 15.60, the average at which habitual inebriety 

 becomes fixed is 21.56, or three years younger. Nor is this all. 



