. Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded. WANDERER ? 6 COLONY FOR THE feeble- minded CHART 83. Chart 84.—A Neuropathic family.—The central mating is of an insane,immoral 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 f
. Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded. WANDERER ? 6 COLONY FOR THE feeble- minded CHART 83. Chart 84.—A Neuropathic family.—The central mating is of an insane,immoral 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 epilepticand a resident of the Colony; the fourth and fifth are in an orphanage—they are very young. Note that two generations of alcoholism on thepaternal side combined with insanity and neuropathic tendencies on thematernal side resulted in feeble-mindedness, epilepsy and brain fever. H- O Q O H- D 48YRS. TB. ? b D. I9YR5- D I7YR5SPINAL DROWNEDMENINGITI5 D D. 45 CHART 84. O Ne. Tb. Sx ?6 Ne, -0 ana.
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