. Mental defectives in Virginia: . WANDERER * DO ^ * * * * » ^~S D INF. D INF. A A COLONY FOR THE Feeble- minded CHART 83. Chart 84.—A Neuropathic family.—The central mating is of an insaneimmoral woman (a one-time resident of the segregated district) and analcoholic man. They have had five children. The eldest died of brainfever at 13 months; the second is feeble-minded, the third is epileptic anda resident of the colony; the fourth and fifth are in an orphanage—theyare very young. Note that two generations of alcoholism on the paternalside combined with insanity and neur
. Mental defectives in Virginia: . WANDERER * DO ^ * * * * » ^~S D INF. D INF. A A COLONY FOR THE Feeble- minded CHART 83. Chart 84.—A Neuropathic family.—The central mating is of an insaneimmoral woman (a one-time resident of the segregated district) and analcoholic man. They have had five children. The eldest died of brainfever at 13 months; the second is feeble-minded, the third is epileptic anda resident of the colony; the fourth and fifth are in an orphanage—theyare very young. Note that two generations of alcoholism on the paternalside combined with insanity and neuropathic tendencies on the maternalside resulted in feeble-mindedness, epilepsy and brain fever. & D O o E- ? D D. I9YR5. DI7YR5 Spinal Drowned MENIMGITI5 D D. 45 o <D Ne. Sx. o Tb. EDO A A A CHART 84. ?6 Ne. S tD. ^x -Oxs» o -oh Eh -o ^-o **X 36 State Board of Charities and Corrections Chart 85.—An Institutional Family.—Here the central meeting is of afeeble-minded, insane, immoral woman, No. 24, (thrice married) and a fee-ble-minded, epileptic man who died in the colony. This marriage which wasthe womans second matrimonial venture, resulted in three feeble-mindedchildren, two of whom are now in orphanages. Note that the womansfirst and second husbands were brothers. By the first husband she hadthree children, one of whom died in. infancy, and the other two are nowliving, one in a reform school and the other with a family said to be im-moral. Both are feeble-minded. This woman, No. 24, was married thethird time to a man with whom she had lived a while before her secondhusband was taken to the colony. Her third husband served a term in thepenitentiary. He and his twin brother were feeble-minded. While the onlyepileptic member of this family died in the colony, it will be noted that thestock
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