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Further investigation shows that 7 of these males and 18 

 females are married and have a total offspring of 42. One female 

 is recorded as having an illegitimate child. Little is known of 

 these children except 1 who is feeble-minded and 1 who has tuber- 

 culosis. However, unless the laws of heredity fail here, many 

 will be found to be epileptic or show other manifestations of 

 mental disorder. 



Clara L., now thirty-six years old, is epileptic and syphilitic. 

 Her father, one brother, and one sister died of tuberculosis. She 

 is married and has 4 children. The oldest, a boy, at nine years was 

 in the first grade of school. He has since been placed in a special 

 school, but fails to make progress. He is stunted and undersized. 

 The other children are not yet of school age, but are not notice- 

 ably defective and give no history of epilepsy. 



Alma P. has been epileptic since eleven years of age. She is 

 now thirty-three, is married to a man with tuberculosis, and has 

 3 children. Her mother died of tuberculosis and her second child 

 has the disease. All of the children are subnormal mentally, the 

 husband is unable to keep a job, and the family is continually 

 in economic distress. 



Fred R. is a widower with 5 children. He is forty-five years 

 old and epileptic. His father is a heavy drinker, and Fred is 

 said to have drunk heavily when young. His wife died of tuber- 

 culosis. Nothing is known of the mental or physical condition 

 of the children. 



In this group of epileptics there are 3 negro males and 2 

 foreign-born males, 1 Danish and 1 Syrian. All of the rest are 

 white Americans. The majority of them are living in cities — 

 24 males and 25 females. Only 15, eight males and 7 females, are 

 living in small towns or the country. As has been previously 

 mentioned, country life is much more beneficial to these patients, 

 but few of them can or will have it unless forced to do so. 



Carl W. is a colored man of forty years of age who says he 

 has had epilepsy since eighteen. He was born in Kentucky and 

 is one of 18 children. The condition and whereabouts of the 

 other 17 are unknown. He was formerly in an institution for the 

 care of epileptics in another state and now is cared for by a char- 

 ity organization. He gives a history of ancestral insanity. 



Sarah R. is now twenty years of age and as yet unmarried, 

 tho her romances have been many (according to her stories). Her 

 mother died of tuberculosis and an aunt died of epilepsy. Sarah 



