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useful trades, 10 of wliom learned these 

 trades in state's prison. The prison terms 

 of these people down to 1915 were 375% 

 years for one person, and the aggregate 

 cost of this family to the State was $2,100,- 

 000 and for pensions $650,000 more. These 

 statements of Dugdale were thoroughly in- 

 vestigated and, in 1877, startled thinking 

 people, but, today, all is forgotten. Dugdale 

 finished his work by adding, "It is getting 

 time to ask, why do not our courts, our 

 laws, our almshouses and our jails deal 

 with the question presented?" 



Then Dr. Esterbrook of Indianapolis, 

 Ind., published the history of "The Nam" 

 family, 852 persons, all from one ancestor, 

 another defective family that cost the 

 State and society $1,141,676. This family 

 is still reproducing feeble-minded people, 

 defectives and criminals. Dr. Esterbrook 

 is now at work on the "Ishmaels," a family 

 of over 9,000 members. They came from 

 one parent stock. They left Kentucky some 

 time after 1800 for Indiana, and, in 1840, 

 this family was said to number 300. 

 They have intermarried and intermarried 



