REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF THE 

 EUGENIC AND DYSGENIC EFFECTS OF WAR 



CORRADO GINI 



Rome, Italy 



A general detailed report on the previous work of the committee was 

 presented at the meeting held by the Federation at Farnham, in September, 

 1930. It appeared later in the "Report of the Ninth Conference of the 

 International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, Farnham, Dorset," 

 pages 64 to 69. This report set forth the situation as of the summer of 



1930. On January 19, 1931 I notified each of the committee members of 

 the president's (Dr. Davenport's) request that at the Third Congress of 

 Eugenics to be held at New York in August, 1932, I open, with a report, a 

 discussion on the eugenic and dysgenic effects of war. On that occasion I 

 also asked each one of them to forward to me, within the month of February, 

 a statement as to the state of his researches on the subject. Some members 

 reported, but only Dr. Szel, representing the commission for Hungary, 

 added new contributions to the subject. He sent me, in fact, a 32 page 

 report which I submit as an annex to mine. Three of our committee mem- 

 bers, however, Dr. Burgdorfer (Germany), Dr. Briand (France), and Prof. 

 Hersch (Switzerland), sent in papers which had previously been presented 

 at the International Congress of Population held in Rome in September 



1931. The respective titles of these papers are: "Eugenik und Krieg;" "Le 

 Coefficient de masculinite en France pendant et apres la guerre, 1914-1918," 

 and "Des Principaux Effets Demographigues des Guerres Modernes." 



As a matter of fact, the subject of the effects of war on the race had been 

 placed on the program of that Congress and, besides being treated by the 

 three papers submitted by our above-mentioned colleagues, was treated also 

 by two other memoirs, one by Prof. Eugene Wurzburger of Leipzig, entitled 

 "L'influence de la Guerre Mondiale sur le Mouvement de la Population," 

 and the other by Dr. Edouard Rosset, director of the Statistical Bureau of 

 the City of Lodz, concerning "Les Maladies Veneriennos et la Guerre." 



It is also to be remembered that at the Tokio session (1930) of the Inter- 

 national Institute of Statistics Messrs. Sakamoto and Koren Ko presented 

 a short paper entitled "Etudes statistiques sur les effets eugeniques de la 

 guerre" explaining the results of some researches concerning Japan which 



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