. Annual report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. ne of the sisters also; the two others lived and died in the adjacent town ofBowdoinham. I am not positively cognizant of the mortuary record of thefamilies of the two sisters who lived out of town, but I am of the opinionthat two or three cases of consumption occurred among them. The following table, drawn up from the verbal statements ofthe writer of the letter, presents a more distinct view of thehereditary character of the process of consumption in thisfamily than can easily be obtained from the letter itself:— 1873.] STATE BOA
. Annual report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. ne of the sisters also; the two others lived and died in the adjacent town ofBowdoinham. I am not positively cognizant of the mortuary record of thefamilies of the two sisters who lived out of town, but I am of the opinionthat two or three cases of consumption occurred among them. The following table, drawn up from the verbal statements ofthe writer of the letter, presents a more distinct view of thehereditary character of the process of consumption in thisfamily than can easily be obtained from the letter itself:— 1873.] STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 185 B pi PP rg . ^ ^3 ^3 _ . bfl SC bfl figfiP3S t»«3«2PPP ^11 11 ]& So a>. o °.« t*-1 — _. ^ m T3 -J ;§ -73 os of a fl. .?? eS O feCN o ^ oo I -I s s -1 ^ o 3 © O bo bfi be bfl5 c3 e3 c3 c3 ^PPPP II s s ceP . t3 §» <1 OS <D^ bo •73 © s-ioo CD o o B3 2 §. suos 8Ag prcq ptre oSe QSI umx>:j gqj o;nt paAoni Apnrej sp^x 49 386 STATE BOAED OF HEALTH. [Jan. The summing up of the teachings of these three generations of the is as follows: First. The first question that naturally presents itself,is, Does this family history furnish evidence of hereditary predisposition toconsumption? I would answer, Yes. Perhaps some would cavil at this,and ask, Why has not the family of A. P., with a larger family of sons anddaughters, contributed to this consumptive catalogue, as well as those ofhis brothers, Robert Joseph, Joseph Thomas and David? It is not nec-essary, I take it, that every individual or every family should have such anobituary to establish the generally received truth of what is here has been my lot to have resided more than half a century in a community,where, eighty-five years ago, a family lived, and intermarried with cousins,in which insanity had shown itself. Among their descendants we findmany families t
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