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far imbecile or idiotic as to need hospital care. Of the mental 
ai of the children not undercare I have no means of judging, 
but I have information that four are badly deformed, one is 
dwarf and is being exhibited as such in a show, and three have 
fe career fingers and toes. 
me of these twelve families, so far as I can learn, are the 
marriage of disease, there being insanity on both sides, In these 
ve families there are elg teen children—ten males and eight 
imbecile and idiotic ; so that ent: < the total and every 
female are afflicted, and among them o be found all the badly 
idiotic patients in this group. In mat seven families in which 
— has been traced only on one —_ there are ——— 
childre d, of these, fourteen—six 
males wt eight females—are imbecile, the proportion being over 
a half, and the females, as in the other cases, showing a larger pro- 
portion than the males. 
I have placed all these cases in a tabular form, showing the 
insane relations in each, Some of these were peculiar, and of 
special interest. 
In case 5, a paternal uncle and the paternal a and 
also a maternal uncle, were insane, an ut of th 
three died j in Gladesville. In this case the whole family, 
four in number, were idiots of a low type, crippled, and 
unable to walk. 
In case 6, the father was insane and deformed, and a 
mother was epileptic and occasionally insane. 
family consists of three children—two os both 
imbecile and one deformed, and one male, a dw: 
In case 8, two maternal uncles were insane nha under 
care at Gladesville ; a maternal cousin is an imbecile at 
Newcastle, and a paternal cousin was in the same 
institution. hes out of four children are imbecile. 
In case 15, the maternal grandmother was for some time 
at Ghedewville; ‘ "ies maternal uncles were incurab 
insane and under hospital care, and a sixth maternal 
uncle had been ra or five times under treatment for 
short periods. There are two children only in the 
family, and both are imbecile. 
The peculiar sympathy which people who are neurotic and 
have a tendency to insanity feel for each other often results in 
marriage. I have on several occasions had hus wife — 
under my care at the same time for marked insanity; and the — 
peculiarities of persons who come as visitors to their wives and _ 
husbands when SRE in sa cee for the insane are mest 
