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as most of these parents are yet young, there is ample opportunity 

 for additional offspring. It is said that the average number of 

 children of feeble-minded parents is 7 as compared with 3 of 

 normal-minded parentage. 



Ketta J. is of the Mongolian type, admitted to the School for 

 Feeble-minded Youth at the age of twenty-three. Her father was 

 a wanderer, syphilitic and alcoholic ; of her mother little is l^nown 

 except that she died in childbirth. Retta was one of 18 children, 

 4 of whom are living. She had spasms as a baby, was cross-eyed 

 and never able to talk plainly or intelligibly, and is color-blind. 

 Her first illegitimate child, a boy, was born in 1912, and her 

 second, a girl, was born in 1916 in the Robert W. Long Hospital. 

 Thru the assistance of the Juvenile Court, the children were 

 placed in orphans' homes and the mother sent to the Custodial 

 Department of the School for Feeble-minded Youth in the early 

 part of 1917. 



Newton T., formerly an inmate of Julietta Hospital for Incur- 

 able Insane, married Maggie C, a feeble-minded woman. They 

 had 10 children, of whom 3 died in infancy, 3 are now in the 

 School for Feeble-minded Youth, 1 is reported married to a men- 

 tal defective, 1 has an illegitimate child, and of the other 2 nothing 

 is known. 



Charles S., age twelve, is a defective physically and mentally. 

 He did not walk until five years old, has a speech defect, and is 

 anemic. He was unable to go beyond the first grade of school. 

 His father died of tuberculosis and his mother was '^too defective 

 to give accurate history". 



It will be noticed in Table III that, while the majority in this 

 group are white Americans, there are 9 colored, 1 foreign-born, 

 and 5 of foreign-born parentage. It is interesting to note that 

 of the 9 colored, 5 are in the institution, while application papers 

 have been filed for the sixth. Of the other 3, 1 is in a special 

 school in the city, 1 is married after having given birth to an 

 illegitimate child, and 1 has shown such marked musical ability 

 (altho unable to go beyond the fourth grade in school) that funds 

 have been raised by interested individuals to secure additional 

 musical education for her. 



The one foreign-born is a Russian Jewish boy graded as a 

 moron, whose application to the School for Feeble-minded Youth 

 was rejected on the ground that it did not show sufficient evi- 

 dence of mental defect. 



