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Eight per cent had gone to a school for retarded and feeble-minded, 1 

 per cent to special schools (for tuberculous or epileptic children) and 1 

 woman had not gone to school at all and was an analphabet. Three per 

 cent had gone to higher schools. 



The results derived from this calculation agree very well with what could 

 be expected beforehand. Hence, there is no doubt that the environmental 

 conditions, under which the majority of the examined group of individuals 

 have lived during childhood and adolescence, are considerably below the 

 average of the total population; most of them were handicapped from their 

 very start in life. A great many are from poor, and even very poor homes 

 with large families; however, there are exceptions from this rule for a few 

 of them come from well-to-do and in every respect good homes. A com- 

 paratively great number of them were born out of wedlock and had been 

 wholly or partially orphaned during childhood or adolescence, some had had 

 step-parents or had been educated outside their homes. 



In others, the deficiency of their natural gifts had early been manifest, 

 they had been very backward at school and had even been sent to special 

 schools for feeble-minded or otherwise mentally defective children; others 

 had from their earliest adolescence been placed in homes of education and 

 frequently under supervision of Boards of guardians. 



Information as to the circumstances of the examined at the adult age is 

 given in the following figures : 



As regards work, 81 per cent of the examined had chiefly been employed 

 as domestic servants (housemaids, scullery maids, cooks), 6 per cent as 

 factory hands, 4 per cent as seamstresses and 9 per cent had had other occu- 

 pations (artists, models, waitresses, bar-maids, etc.). 



Thirty-five per cent had been married, 35 per cent of these lived with 

 their husbands, whereas 65 per cent were widowed, divorced, deserted or 

 separated, 5 per cent had been married two or three times. 



Thirty-nine per cent had children, 85 per cent of these had children out 

 of wedlock and 20 per cent of the children were dead. 



Sixty-two per cent of them had been fined, 59 per cent had been in prison 

 because of neglect of reporting themselves, 41 per cent because of crimes 

 proper, 23 per cent had been punished for theft, receiving stolen goods, 

 robbery, or fraud; 9 per cent on account of propagation of venereal disease 

 and 18 per cent on account of having incited or enticed to immortality, or 

 of having displayed an immoral mode of life, to such a degree as to offend 

 the sense of decency or to become a public nuisance, or of having disturbed 

 those living in the vicinity, of having practiced immorality as a trade, viz., 

 having a male person or a minor over 2 years living in the same dwelling 



